Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:12 PM, Friday June 26th 2020
I tried... as you will notice I completely gave up at the end of the organic perspective exercise. Any feedback will be appreciated.
Alright, here's my analysis:
Lines
Overall, you did pretty well with your lines. You have a slight wobble, but I can see that you're working to prioritize keeping your lines confident. So you're on the right track.
Though I note, to keep the ellipses in planes and ghosted planes seperate. I believe you added the ellipses later, but since they're both different assignments. Please do these over again, you don't have to post it though. (I'll go more in depth in the conclusion about the requested reworkings)
Ellipses
Looking more at the ellipses, there's more clear instances of wobbling compared to the lines. Just as a reminder, priortize keeping your lines smooth and confident, not accurate. Accuracy comes with time, as you get used to drawing with your shoulder.
In your Ellipses Tables, there are some small instances with overlapping. I can see that you improve on that later, just note that you should aim to keep your ellipses within the bounds, touching each other without overlapping.
For your Funnels, you did really well with aligning your ellipses with the minor axis. Although to note, some of the major axises weren't drawn in. Otherwise, it's just the general wobble.
Boxes
Your plotted perspective and rough perspective are done really well, so good job on those! Your cross-hatching for your plotted perspective is very neat, and I liked that a lot
For your rotating boxes, while the boxes are kept close, there's little to no indication of the boxes being rotated. Some of the planes and sets of boxes aren't drawn in either.
Overall, I think the biggest thing for the Rotated Boxes is that, you missed the concept of exercise. There's a lot I could point out, but I think rereading the article itself might be the best course of action.
A useful tip (addressed here, specifically the image) is to use the side, bottom, top, boxes edges to help infer the perspective for the next box.
From what I can assume, I believe there was some frustration from this, and that's okay. It's not supposed to look pleasing, you're going to mess up a lot. Don't put pressure to make it look good, as long as you fully attempted you'll succeed with the assignment. Over time, as you do these for your warm-ups, you'll see improvement in how these look. It's slightly cheesy, but as a general rule of thumb, focus on the process, lessons learned, concepts, etc. and not the result.
As for the Organic Perspective, it's very bare. I suggest to add more boxes. I also suggest to diversify the sizes of them. Generally the boxes bigger as they get closer and vice versa if smaller. The lineweight is also thicker if closer and vice versa as well. Though I can see this in instances of your Organic Perspective, don't be afraid to make-somewhat more-drastic changes to the size. If you need a guide, you can check some of the examples for the homework, here.
These are some of my own suggestions, so you won't need to do the Organic Perspective for revisions.
Conclusion
Most of the general errors I see are wobbling, but as you prioritize the confidence of those lines over the accuracy, it'll improve. As for the Organic Perspective and Rotating Boxes, they'll improve over time too, you just need to continue to persist with them.
Otherwise, you did a really nice job on everything else, and on a side note, I liked how you organized everything too :>
As for the revisions, I'm going to request revisions for Rotated Boxes. As for the Ghosted Lines, I believe you got the concept of them, so there's so need to post them. I'll just ask for the Rotated Boxes as I don't believe you got the full idea for it. Besides that, nice job!
Next Steps:
Definitely re-read it again. Look at some of the images, the visuals can be quite helpful.
Draw in all the boxes. Make sure to do the top-most and bottom-most set of boxes too.
Draw in all the planes for each boxes.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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