greg.44

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Hi,

your lines seems to be quite confident. Only in some cases it looks like you bend them at the end toward ending dot - you can overshoot dot - it is confidency more important then accuracy; and if you doing line not accurately going through ending dot try to not correct this but do them as straight as possible.

Ellipses are also good, I just see in some that your lines are not confident, are wobbling and are stiff, they looks like done very slowly and carefully. You could try to draw them slightly quicker with shoulders and using ghosting.Again - smoothnes and confidence over accuracy.

Plotted perspective well done. Only two or three edges aren't parallel to horizon line. Correcting lies done correctly.

Rotated boxes are done good.

Organic perspective also gives impresion of space, boxes are made smaler as they are further.

Overall - well done. Use this exercises as a pool to your warm-ups.

Hi,

Starting with your lines - they are good done - smooth. Some are arching but not wobbling. Imposed lines start at one end - as should be done, they are frying at other ends but with practice you improve it. Ghosting lines and ghosted planes are also well done - smooth, confinently drawn with some visible arching in longer ones. With ghosted planes you should put dots marking ends of cross lines and ghosting lines using this dots.

Tabels of ellipses is fine - your ellipses have nice round ends and are kept in limits and drawn required number of times.

The same apply to funnels, and with funnels your ellipses stay symetrical, lines halving funnels are not in the middle but it is minor issue. The ellipses in ghosted planes are daviating more from eliipses but it is tricky to match and draw ellipse there.

Plotted perspective - well done.

Rough perspective - it seems that some of your lines are wobbly, this is more stresfull exercise and it could cause this but with more confidence and practice it will be easier and your lines be better. Also remember that edges of boxes horizontal and vertical should be parallel and perpendicular to horizon line respectively. You properly applied correction lines. anyway it is quite well done.

Rotated boxes - it gives impresion of being, maybe not exactly ball, but some 3d shape. In some boxes especiall the furthest it looks like you didn't applied rotating. And it seems that you didn't put dots marking ens of lines - it is important to use them as and to apply ghosting.

Organic perspective - this gives impresion as being places in the space. Boxes are getting smaller as they are further away. It seems that after some box you stops making them smaller - you draw them about the same size. And also in this exercise it seems that you stoped from puting dots - maybe i'm wrong here just not seing them.

Dots are important and usefull - You should use them as they are for planing stage and then for applying ghosting. Even you could put another and another dot as first one seems be in not good place.

I think you done this exercisses well, good job.

Hi Marieridge,

It's Greg here.

Superimposed lines - they are done good. Starting ends of lines don't fray as you controlled beginning position of a pen. The longer lines the more they fray at the stopping ends and subsequent lines more deviate to sides what is normal. As I can see subsequent lines don't deviate in wavy manner but rather to one side so this means you are doing them confidently. Some lines, shorter ones, are nicely done it is matter of practice to achive this in longer. Curved lines are tricky but you control starting end.

Ghosting lines - they are smooth and they are quite accurately - they start and stop at or very close to dots. They are also rather confidently drawn it means bowed to one side only. There are some with slight wavynes. You could draw not trying to hit final dot but rather having confident straight line as a priority. But you are on right rack.

Ghosted planes - done well, some dividing lines are more bowed then in ghosting lines part. You could put dots in places where ends of dividing lines should be - this will help you to be more confident in drawing them.

Table of ellipses - you are drawing ellipses precisely, they touch both lines and side of other ellipse. Also you are drawing them through required two or three times. They are rather tight but also wobbly, maybe you should try to draw them less accurate but faster and more loosly to improve line confidence, smoothnes at this stage.

Ellipses in planes - this part is harder then the tables. In this part some ellipses are wobbly as you try hard to hit lines. This is tough to do as there is more points to control. Keep in mind that line confidence/smoothnes is the top priority here. Although tis is not main goal here the way you are putting ellipses in planes looks good.

Funnels - You are precise but you sacrificed smoothnes of ellipses shape and smoothnes of ellipses lines because of concentration on that accuracy. Try to be more loose, relaxed. During warm-up you could try draw ellipses closing eyes after after ghosting. This can be also tried with superimposing and ghosting exercises.

Plotted perspective - done correctly, nothing more to say here.

Rough perspective - well done, only you missed how to draw check lines (red ones on your drawings). You should draw them not to preset vanishing point but draw them through corners to a horizon line. You should correct this on existing drawings by drawing such lines with other color then red - this will show you your strong points and places prone to errors.

Rotated boxes - your attempt here gives impression some 3d object. You lost your line confidence here as it is normal being concentrated on such task. Front (external) sides are drawn good, you chosen points of next tiles close to existing tiles and using them as guide. You have some troubles with internal (close to center) sides of boxes. You could treat them as external ones and use existing as guide.

Organic perspective - good done. It seems that you lost your confidence at first boxes but you recovered from this. Your boxes diminish as they go further and you weren't afraid to overlap them what gives good impression of space.

So, I think you done well this exercise, and you can go to 250 box challange.

Also as you be doing warm-ups remember that smoothnes/confidence of lines are most important here before accuracy.

Good luck,

Hi,

the sentence you are citing apply for 1-point perspective not perspective generally. It is explained in this paragraph how it came to be from 2-poitn perspective.

In case of Organic Perspective or 250 boxes it is recommended to draw most of the boxes in 3-point perspective.

The farther VP's are placed the shallower (less dramatic) perspective is. And this is recommended for Organic and for most of 250 boxes.

Greg

Hi,

your boxes aren't bad, and you shouldn't worry about them being wobbly at this moment - this will improve with practice and you should be realy patient with this. It seems that you understand how to construct box but you only need practice and practice (as we all).

Here are some advices I learnt from others and/or found myself:

First thing you should take care is line quality, draw lines with shoulders using ghosting and not too slowly but not too fast, you find speed appropriate for you with some experimenting. Also don't press pen too hard to page - keep it in relaxed hand - and this improve your line, save your wrist and pen.

Do ghosting and drawing lines with your writing hand touching lightly a paper (probably an english word for this is hover but I'm not sure).

I think you draw maybe too slow and too carefully -but maybe it just looks this way on photos and I'm wrong.

Do hatching also with ghosting and drawing with shoulder.

Hope this will help you, good luck

Greg

Hi, thanks for good words!

It happend some times that after drawing bad line I redraw it due to some automatic impulse, but I'm not sure you are writing about this or about my attempts to add line weight to silhoutte. In any case I keep it in mind.

As to extreme perspective - yes i will try this, but I had and still has an issue with not extreme perspective - troubles with finding parallel line to an edge. I was using this parallel as base for chosing next edges in shallow foreshortenig case.

Greg

Hello Acro,

thank you for your critique!

For your information - yes, as you suspected, I practiced these superimposed and ghosted lines earlier, about two weeks or something before I thought that I should do it in required format and give for critique.

What surprised me in your critique is comment about Rotated Boxes - I thought contrary but I'm happy now.

Greg