Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:12 PM, Sunday July 31st 2022
Just wanted to say that i was usig ballpoint for these so some lines are smudged up a bit. I think it said in lesson 0 that its allowed for this.
Yep! And it’s no problem at all! Let’s take this one exercise at a time, then.
Starting with your superimposed lines, these look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, too, and I’m pleased to see how ambitious you’ve gotten with them. That said, I don’t notice any start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. You’ll recall that plotting points is an essential step of the ghosting method – without them, you can’t ghost.
Your ellipses (save for that one frame in which they’re all floating – remember that ellipses need to have a goal: in this case, to touch all available sides of the frame!), look quite good; they’re smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. I do notice some tails at the end of them, however, so I’ll recommend lifting, not flicking, your hand off the page at the end of them, to get rid of them. The ellipses in planes are at times a little uneven, so I’ll remind you not to stress over whether your ellipse touches all sides of the plane. More important than that, it’s that it turn out smooth, and rounded, so focus your attention there. I was going to comment on the empty space in your funnels page, but you added a second one, so I suppose you’re safe… As for the funnels themselves, their ellipses are at times a little insecure, but this is normal, given their size (small marks are harder to draw from the shoulder). As such, I’ll recommend drawing a little bigger here.
The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.
The rough perspective exercise looks good, but it’s hard to say for sure, without the correction lines (the final step, in the exercise page), so I’ll request that you add them before I look at it.
The rotated boxes exercise shows a good (second) attempt (you should’ve stuck with the first – we don’t encourage students to scrap and restart, regardless of how bad they mess up; one, because then you’ll be scrapping 90% of what you draw, and not learning anything, by virtue of not making any mistakes, and two, because being able to make the most of a ‘failed’ drawing is an essential skill to develop, too). The boxes stretch a little too far in, but that’s understandable. As you progress through the box challenge, you’ll be given some tools to combat that, as well as other issues, so hold out until then.
Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good. Based on the overshooting, I’m inclined to think that you didn’t plot any start/end points for these lines (if you didn’t, be sure to from now on - all lines need those), but, despite that, the boxes flow well, as per their size, and foreshortening. Keep up the good work.
Next Steps:
I’ll be marking this lesson as complete, and moving you on to the box challenge. GL!
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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