Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:05 PM, Thursday February 25th 2021

Lesson 1 - Google Drive

Lesson 1 - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MW9PGzH0OrVfcePEq08o0c_Nvw4F8GWK?fbclid=IwAR28TJLn7FScxx3b2Cghji5J1yhlgsRBTxbnylAQFOqYFBZVYcptL50zY0E

I've done 2 pages of Rotated boxes by mistake. Turns out it was a happy mistake, I think it came out much better on the second page and I'm quite glad I've done this - I've been able to understand it better. :D It's still far from perfection, though.

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12:07 PM, Wednesday March 3rd 2021

Hi! Starting with your lines exercises. Your superimposed lines are drawn confidently and I can see you've placed your pen carefully before drawing each line. The same goes for your ghosted lines and lines in planes. My only point of critique is that there does seem to be some arching happening, so I suggest you give this a read.

In the second page of your tables of ellipses in particular, you should be placing your ellipses closer together so they just intersect. You also could do with practicising a wider range of ellipses - see how the example page here differs from your pages, which only have five or so columns in the whole thing. That said, the ellipses you have drawn look pretty good.

It's good to see more care taken on accuracy in your ellipses in planes. However, you only have one page of this, so I need to see the other before marking the lesson as complete.

Your funnels are a bit of a mixed bag. Your bottom-middle and bottom-right ones look great. But your bottom-left ellipses are tilting all over the place, and similarly for the second-top funnel (looks a bit like a fish-eye lens perspective? but that's not what the exercise is designed for).

Your rough perspective boxes are a good effort. Be mindful that your width lines should be parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon. You've done the correction lines incorrectly - see here. And again, there should be two pages of this, not one.

I assume that the top page of rotated boxes was your second effort. There is a lot of improvement here in terms of keeping boxes equal distance apart - well done. It's not imperative that you master this exercise right now.

No complaints about your organic perspective boxes either - just try not to extend your lines past the dots you put down.

Overall, there's lots of good work here, but to mark the lesson as complete I'll need to see another page of ellipses in planes and rough perspective boxes as per the lesson requirements.

Next Steps:

Another page of ellipses in planes and rough perspective boxes

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:27 PM, Wednesday March 3rd 2021
edited at 4:44 PM, Mar 3rd 2021

Ah, thank you so much for your feedback - I appreciate it very much! Truth be told, I'm so delighted to read so many useful tips - I'll study carefully my mistakes and try to correct them, doing warm-ups!

About missing pages - it seems I simply didn't take a photo of them for some mysterious reason. I updated it, so it should be fine now. Well, in the case of rough perspective - the second page has incorrect correction lines as well. I somehow missed it - I guess, I'll try this exercise once again.

Well, to be honest, the second one, more "round", page is my second attempt at the rotated boxes. ^^" I guess I didn't do very well. I've done this exercise twice by mistake - it was very challenging, though.

Anyway, thank you once again for your effort in reviewing my homework. Much appreciated! :D

Also, I really want to rate your critique as very helpful, but I'm a total noob and I'm not sure - if I'll change the button to orange, it means I agree, right? I'm not sure, lol, and I don't want to "criticize your critique" by mistake! Hahaha.

edited at 4:44 PM, Mar 3rd 2021
5:52 PM, Thursday March 4th 2021

Yup, those pages look fine.

I can't speak for Uncomfortable but I don't think the correction lines are the most important aspect of rough perspective. The way you did it is just a bit less visually effective I think.

Oh, sorry about the rotated boxes heh. Sometimes things just don't go well, it's no big deal.

Yeah, orange means agree ^^ as far as I know at least!

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