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    6:51 AM, Friday May 21st 2021

    Did good overall. You should be ready to move onto the 250 box challenge if you feel comfortable.

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    6:41 AM, Friday May 21st 2021

    Hello there! Here's my rundown:

    Superimposed Lines:

    On the first page, the lines look confident/not wobbly and there isn't fraying on both ends until the curved lines on the bottom left corner of the page, but it looks like you avoided that problem with the curved lines on the right. The second page where you crossed some of the lines, it looks like a few of those lines have a bit of fraying on both ends while others were avoided, so to me it looks like you avoided the fraying after you noticed the first time.
    
    Overall pretty good on the confidence side of things, with more practice your lines will strike through perfectly, some slight work needws for starting point fraying.

    Ghosted Lines:

    Good on the confidence side again, I noticed there is some hesitation for some lines as you try to hit the mark at the end, but others are very confident even if you don't hit the mark. A few lines you can tell you stopped at the end of the line and others it looks like you frayed off (or lifted your pen) I would keep trying to lift your pen as you hit the mark, those lines look a lot better. Some of your long lines are pretty good too. With the curving, just practice curving to the other side until you hit that sweet spot.

    Ghosted Planes:

    The main thing I noticed with these on both pages is that the lines that make a + in the middle didn't pass through the lines that crossed from each corner. Instead they look like you were trying to draw the line to split the boxes in half on both directions. Practice these again and I would use this process: Make the box lines, cross the lines from corner to corner, then pass the lines from each side throug the X in the middle.
    
    Other things I noticed is your lines making the outside of the box up are more curvy because you're trying to connect dot to dot, I would worry about accuracy completely yet, just confidence marks. The inside lines are more wobblyish and that's possibly caused by the confusion of line placement. Good job on filling the pages up.

    Table of Ellipses:

    Overall your ellipes aren't too bad, what is noticeable however, is that a chunk of the ellipes look wobbly because it looks like you were trying your best to get them accurately inside of their positions. Don't worry about the accuracy as much as the confidence. The other little thing is that I would go with a little more variety next time you try this exercise (maybe some skinnier ellipes as well). 
    
    Good job on filling up all that you can in the space that you had!

    Ellipses in Planes:

    Most of the ellipes look like they have the same issue as the table of ellipses, which is that you tried your best to get them to touch all corners vs focusing on confidence and tightening up the ellipses. This did cause a lot of them to be wobbly and disformed except for a few really good ones in there (mainly top right on the first page and the top left one the second page). 
    
    One thing I really liked is that you didn't have any floating ellipses inside your planes and you didn't have too many that went far out of the planes; you also shaped the ellipses to the planes for the most part, great job!

    Funnels:

    Sort of the same issues again with accuracy, but I can tell there was more confidence in these ones. There is a bit of fraying out with some of the ellipses, but that will come with practice of confidence.
    
    Very good job on keeping them aligned to minor axis, there is maybe a couple that are a bit off but you did great for the most part. Good job on keeping them close together a few of them are merging a bit into each other, but othe than that it's great.
    
    Maybe this is just me, but one thing I noticed is that there isn't a big variety of ellipse sizes and degrees, but I guess focusing on the ellipses you can draw first is the best way to go.

    Plotted Perspective:

    It looks like you followed everything here perfectly except for one thing which was marking the front face of the box with hash lines. 1 box on the top section - Hash lines are on back of box, 1 box in middle section - Hash lines are on top of box, 2 boxes on the bottom section - Hash lines are on back of boxes. Placing the hash lines can be confusing, but when looking at a specific side of a box, try to imagine that extending outwards, and if it comes (sort of) towards the viewer, then it counts as one of the faces of the box.

    Rough Perspective:

    You did pretty good here, I would have recommended drawing the front frame using a ruler, but that didn't really hinder your ability to draw pretty closely to the vanishing point. There are some boxes specifically on page 2 that are a bit distorted because the lines aren't the same length, but at this point, that is something that will be worked on pretty well in the 250 box challenge as you estimate line length.

    Rotated Boxes:

    The main problem I see on here is as the boxes rotate going up or down, left or right, the vanishing point doesn't seem slide along the axis point. It does kinda look like the lines were aimed towards the center, causing some of the boxes to look elongated. This is the most common error as the lesson says and I would recommend re-reading to try to get a solid understanding of how this works before moving on. The other small thing is that hte boxes get kind of distorted as they rotate towards the corner, but they can be very difficult so I would really try to focus on the vanishing point where the other boxes next to it are heading as try to match up with them, while keeping in mind the movement of the VP.
    
    You did great keeping the boxes close together (although try to use each box as a reference for another), and you drew through all of them so you can see how you did in the back end of the boxes.

    Organic Perspective:

    You did pretty good on this, there are a few boxes throughout that seem slightly too big to be in the spot they're in along the perspective line, but it's not too excessive. The other main problem I see is there seems to be forshortening on a good chunk of the boxes, be sure to keep them more consistent so that the boxes don't look as distorted when moving back in space.

    I would say the main thing to work is making as confident lines as possible, once you master this it is so much easier to move onto accuracy after that.

    I hope that I was able to break this down for you as simple as possible, if I said anything that was confusing, or maybe you don' t agree with or understand, make sure to reply so we can discuss it here.

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