Hi Tofu, thank you for the critique! I'm surprised to hear 20 minutes for five boxes is fast. It felt achingly slow while I was doing it. I'll make sure to keep up the practice with the next lessons.
Hi Jwala! I'm also new here but I thought I'd comment on your rotated boxes because it looks like you struggled with that exercise. I think you did quite well on the boxes along the vertical and horizontal lines, but your outermost boxes on the diagonals (e.g. top left) look odd. If you look at the example on the homework page, you see that as the boxes move away from you the two axes furthest away on the box (from your "eye") are shorter than the closest axes and the angle between them becomes larger. They kind of look flatter than the two axes closest to you. You've drawn those two farthest axes so the outermost edge of a box has a diamond shape, and both the closest axes and the furthest axes have the same angle. I think if you corrected those axes that are further away, your rotated boxes would come out looking good (and the whole thing would look more like a circle than a square)! You can see more examples of some boxes showing that effect here.
I hope that explanation is helpful. Otherwise I think it looks really good that your superimposed lines clearly get better with each attempt. You could also try that exercise with curves.
Thank you so much for the detailed response, Benj!
I think I did do a lot of the boxes in the organic perspective without start/end points, yes, so I'll make sure I do that in the 250 boxes. The overshooting isn't really related to that but is just something I have a problem with. Maybe I was drawing the lines too quickly - it seems to be getting better now in any case.
I'll make sure to work on my ellipses. When I drew those, using my shoulder still felt quite alien to me, but I'll go back to them now that I've gotten more comfortable with drawing from the shoulder! And I'll go for smooth confident curves rather than making sure they touch the edges.
The tips are all very helpful, so thank you again. I look forward to submitting the next exercises!
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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