Lines: Lines are fine. There is a bit of fraying at the end, but we all do that. We are told to priorities keeping line smooth and straight, so that is correct.
Ellipses: The ellipses loop round as instructed. In the earilier examples the looping is not very accurate (too fast?) but it seems to improve over the excercise and the Funnel are looking pretty good to me.
Perspective. Plotted Perspective is fine. With Rough Perspective, you seem comfortable guessing the vanishiing point for boxes closer to the vanishing point. However you seem to have stuggling with boxes that are further away from the vanishing point and even the further away boxes have the same angles. I think that is happened enough I may need looking at. Both the Rotating Boxes and Organic Perspective has issues. Lines that should be converging end up diverging. The rotating box is really hard. I had to redo it a few times before I could make sense of it, and even then the end result was a bit of a mess, but at least it understood by then what I needed to do.
I'm just a beginner, so what do I know? But in your place I'd be tempted to give the rotating boxes another go and get a better feel for how angles of the sides vary based on their distance to the vanishing point. Your Plotted Perspective is fine, so maybe as a warm up you could try doing part of the rotating boxes using plotted perspective and ruler and get more comfortable with how it is meant to work? It's just the thought.
Thanks for the review. You are right about my rotated boxes. Turns out, I didn't really understand any perspective or how vanishing lines work. I've been practicing boxes and it considerably improved my understanding of 3d space and perspective.
I also practice ellipses and now they turn out really good compared to my homework.
Here are my rotated boxes redone. They are still not good enough but I'm practicing them constantly.
cheers
That's a massive improvement on the rotated boxes. Feels good, doesn't it?
Yeah. When you see your own progress, it's really satisfying.
Thanks for the reply again. Do you think I did enough to the point for this lesson to be labeled complete?
Hello,
I agree with the previous critique. Overall, I see your improvement during this lesson and desire to continue drawabox lessons. In my opinion, you have submitted your homework of Lesson 1 in the best way of your ability in that moment.
I also saw that you have submitted already 250 Box Challenge. In my opinion it made your understanding of vanishing points and rotating of boxes clearer.
Just made comment that the Community members can label your Lesson 1 completed and you can get a completion badge if they agree :)
Next Steps:
Move to 250 Box Challenge ;)
For improvement in future:
Do exercises from this lesson as your warm-ups. If needed reread materials because after a while you can see the nuances that you could not see in the first attempt.
Consider the possibility to critique others submitted work on lesson 1. It is optional, but it is one of the best ways to refine your understanding of the material. It will be also good contribution to the community. Here is Elodin’s guide on critiquing Lesson 1. [https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ]
Thank you!
I really want to move onto the next lessons as you said. Waiting for a review was killing me so I moved on and completed the 250 box challenge. I had a hard time with first 50 boxes because I didn't understand perspective completely. So waiting for a review is a must from now on.
I never skip warm-ups. I know they are going to be useful and they already improved me so much. I'm confident about that I can perfect lesson 1 now.
Thanks again for your review. I love this community.
Some more comments from my side to make the situation more clear (i.e. how I understand the 'construction' of drawabox comunity).
In my opinion, getting feedback before moving on to a next lesson is the best way to go through this course and get the most of it. However, homework submissions for free community feedback do not guaranty a review of your homework. It depends on the
desire/ability of other community members to make reviews. Looking at the number of existing submissions that have not got a review yet on drawabox (and they are not a few), I would suggest you decide by yourself when it is time to move on. Getting rusty is also not good ;) Just do not rush – let the newly obtained skills absorb in your head and, of course, follow the extremely important 50% rule. Probably at the moment, you could get more quick critique on your homework on Discord server. But at the same time if we are speaking about drawabox homapage, probably you can make your homework be more in sight by making critiques on homeworks submissions of other community members (on those lessons that you have passed already).
P.S. I'm still doing 250 challenge :) So I can't help with your 250 submission.
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The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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