10:23 PM, Tuesday September 1st 2020
Sorry for such a late post! The funnels haven't improved much since i have been off drawabox but I am doing daily work on my ellipses.
Sorry for such a late post! The funnels haven't improved much since i have been off drawabox but I am doing daily work on my ellipses.
two important things to remember: draw though your boxes(if boxes overlap, let it overlap and have lines converge) also the point of the exercise was to use a ruler and get a feel for the perspective, so every box should have had lines drawing back to the horizon line! I would highly recommend you to redo this assignment even if you already got your badge, it would help you in the long run. Reread the directions and look at uncomfortable's work as reference material.
Next Steps:
1 page of plotted perspective
For the super imposed lines, ghosted lines, and ghosted planes, you're on a roll! For the super imposed lines, maybe try longer lines, they are harder but also lets you feel the movement from the shoulder more.
You also did well on the tables of ellipses, ellipses in planes, funnels, and plotted perspective and rotated boxes.
rotated Boxes.
For the organic perspective, try foreshortening more, it give a illusion that some boxes are near and some far. Exaggerate how big the nearest box it. Something that would help is to see the example that uncomfortable gives and see how he does the foreshortening. Also, try overlapping some boxes, it also helps with the illusion. I personally think its fun to overlap.
Next Steps:
You can now move onto the 250 box challlenge!
First of all, congrats for even completing lesson one! I personally thought that it took a lot of work and perseverance to complete.
Lines:
Your super imposed lines sometimes arched so be careful of that. I'm not sure if you did this, but for this exercise you should first use a ruler/straight edge to make a line then do the exercise. I would recommend you to do maybe one page of this but with only lines and no curves to begin with.
For the ghosted lines, i would say that you have a good start. To improve, make sure that you are confident the whole way through drawing and ghosting the line. I could see that you doubted yourself towards the ending dot for some of the ghosted lines. When you finally make the mark on the page, you should be 100% confident and leave no room for doubt. Maybe a good tip would be that when you are ghosting the movement should be towards the faster end.
For the ghosted planes i think you did good.
Ellipses:
For the tables of ellipses, i don't have any critique but i will give you a tip the next time you do this exercise as warm up. Look for you tendencies when you draw, and focus on one tendency at a time. Moreover, when you do a good circle or one that you're proud of think what you have done differently. Did i worry less? Did I ghost more? Did I feel less tense? And then try to repeat your success.
For ellipses in planes, try to only circle around for 2-3 times. I think if you do that, you can see what you can work on more clearly.
For the funnels, remember to touch the lines, there shouldn't be ellipses free floating(touching the lines). This might be something to practice but maybe you forgot this along the way.
Boxes:
Your plotted perspective is missing...
For your rough perspective some things to look out for:
Make sure that the lines parallel to the horizion line is actually parallel.
I don't know if this would help but the back plane and front plane should look like copies of each other but one smaller(back).
A common tendency is that boxes farther away don't reach the vanishing point, play around with the angles of your lines and you might find something out.
For the rotated boxes, some of the boxes are not rotating. The link explains what i mean. Also keep the gaps between boxes consistant.
https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg
For organic perspective good work and go continue onto the 250 box challenge.
I noticed that but wasnt sure how foreshortened it should be, but thank you for pointing it out! Is there anything else you can critique?
You can use this link:
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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