ronbadonski

Thanks for the heads up, and yeah, spheres are pretty tricky for me. I'll do some more practice before moving on.

Hi,

Congrats on finishing Lesson 2. From what I can see you made a good effort and are mostly ready to continue to the next lesson.

• Your arrows look pretty good, I would have highlighted the lines less though- only going over where the arrow twists. This would make the it easier to understand how the arrow twists while also making your lines crisper and cleaner. Aside from that, just make sure your lines are roughly equidistant from each other (given their place in the foreground), although I admit that can be really hard.

• Your organic forms are mostly good, but you should try varying your ellipses more in the first set. Drawing less of them may help too, as it would give you more room to draw wider figures, which is important for conveying how the form interacts with your viewpoint.

• Your textures in general look pretty good, but always remember not to draw forms, but rather the shading they create. Your rug texture, for example, just seems to be the surface of a rug, rather than the shadows casted on it by its contours. Likewise, I'm not sure if a soap bar is the best texture to portray because of its smoothness (in all fairness, I don't have the original image you used, so if it is textured enough please disregard this criticism). You also don't feature much of a transition to the negative (white) space in your texture dissections, instead jumping straight from shadows to empty space. Your corn texture did that pretty well though.

• Your form intersections also look good, although I'm not an expert on the topic. If you have a computer that runs Windows 10, you should have access to the Paint3D application, which allows you to easily draw 3D shapes and observe how they interact. That helped me with the exercise and might help you too.

• Lastly, varying your ellipses more would help a lot on your organic intersections, especially for portions of the forms that directly face the viewer. Additionally, I would personally avoid having forms "bridge" over each other too much, like in the top right of your first page, as this would lead to really deformed shapes as they are sharply affected by gravity.

These boxes look pretty good- I could clearly see you improve a lot from the start to the end of the exercise. I only have two tips that might help you do even better in the future. First, I noticed that some of your boxes (take 119 for example) have a rear line that drastically diverges from the ones in front of it. I remember making a similar mistake, and clamped down on it by taking a step back and viewing the box as a whole. Using the lines you have already drawn to guide your plotting, especially when doing the back corner could help alleviate this.

Second, keeping track of line order may help give you a better idea of the rough area the VPs you are aiming at are. After you draw your Y, keep track of the first lines you draw extending out in each of the three principal directions (you could draw little stars or tick marks or whatever next to them). Next, estimate where these two lines meet, and use it as a target for the other lines you draw. This, in combination with drawing less boxes per page, may help you stay better organized and your lines closer to converging. Still though, your boxes were looking pretty good by the last pages, so I don't think it would be fair to ask you for a redo. Just keep these points in mind and do a few boxes on your own and you'll be good.

Hey, good work on the challenge. I'm not the best at this stuff, but I still noticed a lot of growth from start to finish. I wanted to leave some advice because I think you made a lot of the same mistakes I did, especially early on. On box 221, for example, I noticed how your green lines both were converging almost as a pair of vanishing points instead of just one. Something that helped me a little with that was keeping track of which lines were produced in what order. For example, after drawing your initial y, keep track of the first lines you draw heading to each of the three principal VPs. Afterwards, make sure each line you draw is aimed at that convergence. Your mileage might vary, but for me that helped cut down some obvious mistakes I was making early on. Still though, that's a pretty minor thing, your boxes were looking really good at the end regardless.

Will do. Thanks.