Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:07 PM, Tuesday October 26th 2021
Hello everyone!
To start off, I need to confess that this is the second time I completed the homework for this lesson. In fact, I was about to enter Lesson 3 (have finished the 250 boxes challenge as well) but I just joined in the Patreon, and I noticed that in Lesson 1, I had actually drew one page (instead of two) of the Rough Perspective exercise... So I thought it'd be proper to redo all of them.
I actually have a question for the Rotated Boxes exercise, which was a living nightmare...!
How in the world do we calculate the perspective in the boxes that are on an angle to the center? How do we calculate their horizontal and vertical lines? (which of course will be neither horizontal nor vertical to the horizon line) At what horizon or vanishing point are we supposed to put them? I was completely lost both times I did this exercise (in fact, the first time I did all of lesson 1, I redid this exercise twice as I wanted to understand it; to no avail).
My second question about the Rotating Boxes is about what Uncomfortable had said about the boxes not being cubes. More specifically he said: "In order for this exercise to work and for all of the boxes to stay nice and tightly packed together, we're actually going to be using boxes that are not perfectly rectilinear or cuboid. Meaning, the far end of our boxes are going to be smaller than the closer end, so they taper in one dimension."
I tried visualizing the exercise with the boxes actually being cubes and I just couldn't get the difference. I do understand it in theory, but is there a way to actually demonstrate an example of how they'd look like if they were cubes? How could I go about trying to do that? (not for practice really, but just out of curiosity)
I also wish to ask, for the following lessons... Can I post them as I did them the first time, or do I have to redo them? I surely hope I don't have to redo them, as it's so difficult to motivate myself to redo them (especially the texture ones).
If you wish to see my first attempt in Lesson 1, here is the link: https://imgur.com/a/M0c4eS2