Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently for the most part. There are a few instances where you wobble a bit and seem to be leading your hand back to the guideline instead of trusting the trajectory of your lines. This does clear up in your ghosted lines and planes which are looking nice and confident.
Ellipses
Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is looking really confident, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other. Well done.
Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane while remaining confident. I did notice you marked up a few where you'd made errors but don't worry too much about this as accuracy will come with practice.
Finally, you're doing a good job keeping the ellipses of your funnels aligned to the minor axis. There's a few little skews off here and there and one or two ellipses that weren't drawn perhaps as confidently but I'm really glad to see you pushed the exercise on the first page in the album to include the variation in degree - this came out really well.
Boxes
A quick note on your plotted perspective - you may have noticed some of the back lines of your boxes are not entirely vertical - this can happen when there's slight inaccuracies in the lines used to plot the front of the box not going back to the exact vanishing point drawn. Something to keep in mind, as you will encounter this again.
Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You haven't correctly applied the line extensions here though, which makes it hard to tell how close you got to your goal. From what I can tell though, you would've fallen in a reasonable margin of error, though make sure in future you read the instructions closely before sitting down to work.
Your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You didn't manage to capture the full range of rotation, tending to follow the vanishing point of the box you previously put down and in some cases, rotating back the direction you just came. I noted the language used both in your album and your submisison - don't worry about not getting this exercise the first time, as it is simply an introduction to certain concepts that we explore further in the course.
Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise, as well as experimenting with overlapping the ones closest to the viewer, which goes a long way to conveying a sense of depth in each composition. The boxes themselves are diverging a bit in places, however like the previous exercise, this one is simply an introduction to the concepts you'll explore in depth in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
