Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:55 PM, Friday June 11th 2021
Lesson 1 complete! thanks uncomfortable for this course
Lines
Your superimposed lines and ghosted lines are looking very good. You've only got fraying at one end in superimposed lines, and your ghosted lines are confident and not arcing. You do go a little way past the end point consistently on ghosted lines, so I'll just point out the tips on avoiding overshooting here and just let you keep on practicing in your warmups as you continue!
Your ghosted planes look great.
Ellipses
So do your ellipses in tables and ellipses in planes. You're drawing through the ellipses well, your control over their size and fit is very good, and you're not deforming them to fit in the planes.
With your funnels, you've got mostly good snug alighment, but a few of your ellispes are deformed (eg. left mid funnel's), and the right hand side of the top left funnel's ellipses aren't super well aligned to the minor axis. Make sure you're not rushing. You've made the extra effort to narrow the degree of the ellipses towards the middle of the funnel, but the transition from narrow to wide ellipses is fairly sharp. If you redo this exercise in warmups I'd aim for smoother transitions in degree.
Boxes
In rough perpsective your consistency in overshooting is showing up again, but that's just a matter of practice. Your work looks good.
Your rotated boxes are done fairly well, despite the fact that at first glance it doesn't look like your third layer is rotated away from the second. The reason it looks this way is that you've made the front faces of your third level longer/more rectangular than square. (Not sure if this makes sense, I'll do a diagram if you feel you want one).
You've got a nice sense of depth and flow in your organic perspective. However, you're still a bit limited in what rotations you're using - they all have that central corner pointing directly at the viewer. The corner of the box that's facing you doesn't need to be at the centre, you can push it towards one of the edges to get a box that has that corner tilted further away. The 250 box challenge'll give you plenty of chances to get more confident with those more varied rotations!
Overall great job.
Next Steps:
Have a go at the 250 box challenge next.
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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