5:05 PM, Monday August 2nd 2021
Glad it could be useful!
Glad it could be useful!
Thank you Gady for your critique!
I really appreciate your help, I'll now move on following your advices!
Hey!
Congrats on finishing lesson 1!
I don't feel like I'm in the position to guide you, after all I just finished myself lesson 1.
But if you don't mind me giving you a bit of advice as a fellow student, here are my thoughts:
The lines are pretty good, they don't seem wobbly and there is little fraying. Maybe they arch a bit too much, especially the longer ones, but it's not bad.
The planes seem pretty good, straight lines, good precision, etc. There are some errors but they seem isolated, so you probably already know where you did them and corrected yourself.
The ellipses have a confident line, but i think some of the more squished shapes have too much of a "triangular tip" (especially the top one)... like you went straight for the tip, then made a sharp turn, then go on again too straight, finally getting on the right trajectory and finishing up the ellipse with a good shape. (hope this was clear, if not, don't hesitate to ask me to make it more clear)
The funnels are pretty good, there are some ellipses not one the central line, but those that are, are pretty much divided nicely into the two halves that uncomfortable talks about.
In the plotted perspective exercise (I'm not sure since the quality of the image is not that high) I feel like you missed some of the "x-ray vision" lines (the ones that we couldn't normally see). Be careful about that!
Rough perspective is pretty good, maybe some arching but not too bad
As you already said, you missed some of the rotated boxes. Be careful on the bottom left corner, I feel like you left too much space between the boxes. Keeping it tight makes it easier, as we can use previously drawn lines a reference (and it won't feel distorted)
Finally, the organic perspective: they feel pretty solid, with a nice size range. Be careful though: there are some lines that converge on the wrong side! I don't know if this is dictated by a technical limitation (you wanted to draw a right line but you missed during the execution) or if you didn't properly understand the building phase (in that case I highly suggest revising this https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 )
But yeah, all in all I feel this is a solid work. Well done! Best wishes for your drawing journey!
(It is the first time I do something like this, please have mercy if I did wrong in any way)
Next Steps:
Continue with the normal path (250 box challenge)
Review the organic perspective exercise
During warmup, focus on ellipses and boxes, as well as arching lines.
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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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