Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:10 AM, Sunday August 6th 2023
this is all my work from Lesson 1.
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6:29 PM, Sunday August 6th 2023
Hi Mati,
This is a great one to look at. You don't let your ego get in the way, which is awesome. Your lines look properly ghosted and everything.
I have a few small issues, and I'd like to see you redo a few things:
Tables of Ellipses. I wanna see you really fill out those boxes. There's too much white space here. See Comfy's example. Notice how they're wall to wall with boxes. You're like 90% of the way there, but ellipses are a tricky thing and people REALLY struggle with them. I think it's in your best interest to redo this. I think redoing this will also help compensate for what I think to be what's causing your ellipses in planes to be slightly off.
https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/f4181ea2.jpg
Rough perspective, I'd liek to see you try this one again. When forming your corners that form a line towards your plotted point, you should try your best to form a line with your minds eye, connecting your dot with the plotted point, and place an additional dot along that line.
1 page of Organic Perspective. This one I more want you to do out of principle. I see you going over lines 2 or more on some boxes times here. This is not ideal. Your lines should be one confident, clean stroke. Just one page of this, remade with proper line execution.
Otherwise, great job!
Next Steps:
1 page Table of Ellipses
2 pages rough perspective
1 page organic perspective
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