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7:33 PM, Wednesday November 17th 2021
Welcome to drawabox! I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 1 submission today.
Starting off, your superimposed lines look really good; they’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I’m pleased to see that you’ve filled your page to the brim, too. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also, and though we don’t expect you to experiment with arcing ones just yet, it’s nice to see that you’ve tried.
Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is really well done. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly draw through. For someone of your level of confidence, I’d recommend 2 rotations, not 3, though either works. I’m pleased to see so much variety here, too. The ellipses in planes look good. There’s some stiffness, occasionally, but this is to be expected, when you consider their size. Still, remember that our priority here is their smoothness/roundness, and the way to achieve that is to ghost until ready, then commit. The funnels are nicely done. They’re snug, and properly cut in half by the minor axis.
The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. Particularly nice job with the lineweight/hatching.
The rough perspective exercise looks fairly solid, though I think that the convergences would’ve benefitted from a little more time spent planning, and the linework from less (read: zero) automatic reinforcing. Regarding that last point, remember that each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. Resist the temptation to correct an incorrect line.
Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. It’s big, the boxes are snug, and they rotate quite comfortably. Their actual shapes aren’t always correct, but that’s perfectly fine, for now, as all you have to guide you are those neighboring edges. As we progress through the box challenge, and get into how to construct a box, you’ll slowly replace that guesswork with some proper informed decisions.
The organic perspective exercise looks fairly solid. The foreshortening of your boxes is at times a little inconsistent, but their increase in size is solid, and does a good job of conveying the flow that we’re after. Just be careful that a box that’s overlapping another does not hide its lines.
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Great job here. I’ll be marking this as complete, so you may move on over to the box challenge. GL!
11:16 PM, Wednesday November 17th 2021
Thank you! I'll be sure to incorporate all of that feedback :)
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