Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
1:34 AM, Tuesday July 6th 2021
Thank you for reviewing my work,
Sincerely,
David Musset
Lines:
seeing a lot of fraying at the start of lines in the superimposed exercise, especially with the curved lines. try to focus on starting at the exact same point each time
ghosted lines exercise is missing
Ellipses:
good job remembering to draw through each ellipse
a lot of the ones drawn in your ghosted planes are angled so they're hitting two corners, they should be straight on so they hit all four sides of the plane
Boxes:
plotted perspective lines should be plotted all the way back to the vanishing points. the last frame of that page has the boxes going to a bunch of different vanishing points which is not correct for the exercise, they should all go to the same 2 points like your first frames
rough perspective and organic perspective lines are a bit wobbly, remember to draw confidently
rotated boxes exercise has been shaded in pretty dark and it's hard to evaluate the drawn through areas
Next Steps:
Add the missing ghosted lines exercise and maybe redo the rotated boxes larger/don't shade so dark. Nobody's expecting it to be perfect but it's hard to critique when it's so condensed.
Thank you so much for the feed backs!
I will apply all your comments and redo the missing ghosted lines exercise as well as the rotated boxes.
Would you be able to review them when I post them?
Oops I just saw that you answer my question in your post. Sorry about that.
here is the exercise I redid:
ghosted lines
rotated boxes
Please let me know what you think and if I'm ready to move on to the 250 box challenge.
I really appreciate you taking the time!
Really nice overall. I'll give you my usual "I'm super new at this" disclaimer, but for what it's worth:
Lines - strokes/ marks are generally smooth, confident. There is a lot of fraying on your longer marks in the super imposed lines exercise; Just probably means you need to mind your trajectory more.
Elipeses - Shapes all look pretty tight. You're filling most of the space and not overshooting boarders too much. You may have missed a full 2 rotations on some of your funnels, but it looks like you got most of them - I hope I'm seeing that correctly.
Organic Perspective - Wow, really ambitious attempt on these, and it mostly pays off - lots of boxes, good flow, shapes look mostly even. There are a couple of spots where you might need to re-consider the size of the box - about 1/2 or 3/4 through your flow line (starting from the foreground) some of your boxes look a little too big for where they are supposed to be.
Rough Perspective - These are rougher compared to the rest of your homework, but that was my experience as well. Your plot points are actually fine; Sure you missed the VP a lot, but so does everyone and you're not terribly far off (especially on your re-do). Your lines are more wobbly though, which is interesting when you look at how much more confident they are in your organic perspective.
Rotated Boxes - You noted that you 'messed this one up' on the imgur comment. That's true, but only because it is missing some of the key components that lesson seems to be teaching us. Your drawing isn't "bad", and still makes sense by itself, but because your boxes aren't spaced apart, and you appear to have so much superimposing, it's difficult to see the underlying construction.
Next Steps:
Your re-do of rotated boxes shows that you seem to understand the assignment better and have executed it well. I like seeing hatching on these since it is helpful to orient ourselves with so many invisible lines, but that's optional of course.
Thank you so much for your time and observations. I really appreciate your feedback!
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