NatalieM

Hi there, and congrats on completing Lesson 1!

Some comments from me:

• your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. That's great to see so many page-width ones, and some arcing ones, too.

• the ghosted lines/planes are very confident, too. You’ve kept them smooth and straight, the whole way through the page, and not forgotten about the start/end points of the non-diagonal center lines – well done.

• the table of ellipses exercise looks really good. I don't think i see any "pointy" ellipses there, so it means that you use your shoulder when making marks.

• the funnels look solid. Just be sure that the minor axis extends all the way through your ellipses; or, conversely, if there’s no more minor axis, simply don’t add another ellipse – it’ll be one aligned to nothing, and that’s not of much use to the exersice.

• The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

• The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and improves considerably throughout the set. My only suggestion here, really, would be to not stick to your original guesses. In other words, after you’ve plotted a point, check it, by ghosting it to the horizon, and altering it as needed, before committing to it.

• The rotated boxes exercise looks good. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and properly rotating. The boxes themselves aren’t always correct, as per you being forced to prioritize their neighboring edges above all else, but that’s perfectly fine. You'll have a lot of practice when you do 250 box challenge ;)

• The organic perspective exercise looks great. As per their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening, your boxes flow as intended.

Hi there, congrats on completing your Lesson 1!

Let's have a look...

• Starting off, your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory

• The ghosted lines/planes are fairly confident, too. You’ve kept them smooth and straight, the whole way through, and not forgotten about the start/end points of the non-diagonal center lines – well done.

• The table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good.

• The ellipses in planes are nicely done – despite these more complicated frames, they maintain their prior smoothness/roundness.

• The funnels look solid. Just be sure that the minor axis extends all the way through your ellipses; or, conversely, if there’s no more minor axis, simply don’t add another ellipse – it’ll be one aligned to nothing, and that’s not of much use to the exersice.

• The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

• The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and improves further throughout the set.

• The rotated boxes exercise looks great. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and properly rotating. It is a difficult exersice, and I think you managed just great!

• The organic perspective exercise looks really good. As per their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening, your boxes flow as intended.

Hi there,

Congrats on completion your Lesson 1!

Some feedback from me:

• your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory.

• The ghosted lines/planes are fairly confident, too. You’ve kept them smooth and straight, the whole way through.

• The table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good. There are some pointy ellipses, which are usually a resut of elbow/wrist use instead of shoulder.

• The ellipses in planes are mostly good. I see some pointy ellipses again, but mostly they maintain their smoothness/roundness.

• The funnels look solid. Just be sure that the minor axis extends all the way through your ellipses; or, conversely, if there’s no more minor axis, simply don’t add another ellipse – it’ll be one aligned to nothing, and that’s not of much use to the exersice. With the one which you tried to squeeze in a corner of a page - I think it's better to avoid doing this, as the ellipses were quite distorted and this does not add any value to the exersice.

• The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

• The rough perspective exercise will need some practice - I think you can incorporate this practice in your warm-up routine. Keep in mind that in addition to drawing the box itself the exersice also includes checking your depth lines. This will show us a concrete idea of how far off we were.

• The rotated boxes exercise looks Ok. Their rotation is off from time to time, but this is a very difficult exersice and nobody is expected to do it perfectly from the fist try! I'm sure you'll have a lot of practice going through 250 boxes challenge ;)

• The organic perspective exercise generally looks good. Mostly your boxes flow as intended as per their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening. In one instance the size was pretty much the same for all boxes - this is probably the only thing which could be improved.

Overall - good job, and good luck with the box challenge!

Hi TOFU, many thanks for your review and this feedback. I was struggling with the converging lines, especially when building the last corner of each box. The understanding of the process did improve a lot from the very first box (LOL, at that point I could not even understand the orientation of the boxes!), but it did not come to a smooth sailing by box #250 as I expected... Well, it does take time - so I hope it will come at some point!

I'm glad to move to Lesson 2 - and thanks again for your review :)