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5:31 PM, Monday April 8th 2024
Hi Tawny_0wl! I am Feldspar and I will be critiquing your work today. I hope you've been keeping up with your 50% rule and warmups while waiting! Lets begin!
Lines
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Superimposed Lines: I see bit of fraying on both sides. It means that you are not taking enough time to place your pen in correct location. Don't rush and take your time.
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Ghosted Lines: Confident lines, good work!
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Ghosted Planes: Solid planes all i can say.
Ellipses
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Tables of Ellipses: I notice some ellipses "float" on the page without any targets. Remember, ellipses need to have two borders that encase them, to check their accuracy. But i think it not a big deal as i believe it is about accuracy and will sort out itself with warmups, just keep it in mind. Although the vast majority of ellipses are evenly shaped and fit snugly against the borders. Solid work.
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Ellipses in Planes: Some of the ellipses are wobbling and egg-shaped but i see you trying to put them snugly agains all borders and they are confident so this is the matter of some warmups. Remember, confident but inaccurate line > Accurate but wobbly line.
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Funnels: Good funnels. Try to vary size and shape of ellipses through warmups and optionally change the degree with every ellipse.
Boxes
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Plotted Perspective: I see most of the back vertical lines are not perpendicular. Again it's not a big deal as it is the result of all the little mistakes that accumulate as you work through core steps of this exercise. It means you have room to improve. Give yourself more time when lining up ruler.
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Rough Perspective: I notice your back faces of your boxes are not rectangular especially your back vertical edge is falling. It is not about accuracy but more about planning and deciding where lines will go as there is no arbitrary guesswork.I want you to re-consume the material again and follow the instructions. You may check ScyllaStew's video.
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Rotated Boxes: You have a eye for rotations! Solid job.
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Organic Perspective: Most of the boxes are converging correctly although i see some divergence. Hope hatching was applied by ghosting method. I believe with 250 Boxes Challenge instructions, you will understand and get better with organic boxes even more. Keep it up!
Next Steps:
I request:
- 1 page of Rough Perspective
I don't expect perfect, or not even a good work, just one that follows the instructions. You will post the first page you do, no practice pages, no grinding. I'll be waiting here for your reply so you can start your box challenge :)
7:59 AM, Wednesday April 10th 2024
Thank you for the feedback, Feldspar! I really appreciate it!
Here's the Rough Perspective page redone https://imgur.com/a/FD0eFwL
Also, I have a question. I know the Negotiating corners method was explained after the Rough perspective homework, but can I still use it in the future for this type warm-up? When working on this I often caught the mistakes early, but I tried to commit to the marks I already made.
11:56 AM, Wednesday April 10th 2024
Firstly thanks for taking time and completing this exercise!
About your Rough Perspective: Its getting better! You are on the right track. Just remember that your front and back faces of boxes need to be rectangular(composed of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it) and everything should come in place with warmups.
About your question: You already using it, kinda :p. Look, in Rough Perspective exercise your choices ends after you place first of the back corner. Then, comes two rules: first that your box is converging towards your vanishing point, meaning edges that connect front and back faces will go towards vanishing point and second that front and back faces of the boxes need to be rectangular. With those two rules in mind you start to apply ghosting method to find where your remaining corners will go based on the information present on the page so there is no arbitrary guesswork (https://imgur.com/a/eLREsaW). Only after you make sure that two of this rules you think are applied you start to connect corners and make marks. In Organic Perspective exercise, on the other hand, we don't have that much information - we only have three edges of y and besides that we have no only one but three vanishing points. So here comes the negotiating corner when we need to find a compromise of the two pairs of edges in one face of the box to make sure that they converge to corresponding vanishing points. And besides that we have plenty room for our choices: make box with dramatic or shallow convergence. So in Rough Perspective exercise you use a simpler version of ghosting method then in Organic Perspective. Don't worry you will have a lot of time to experiment with those methods in 250 box challenge.
As about the 250 Box Challenge:
Next Steps:
I give greenlight to 250 Boxes Challenge.
Add these exercises to your warmup pool and don't forget about your %50 rule (I will advise if you haven't followed it, you should go ahead and pay your 50% play debt before the challenge)
Have fun!!!
5:41 PM, Wednesday April 10th 2024
Ooh, I get it now. Thank you for your time!
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