Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:34 AM, Friday September 18th 2020
ho boy did i struggle with this
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2:46 PM, Friday September 18th 2020
Congratulations on completing the first lesson. I shall take a look at your homework.
Lines
Overall your lines are good and confident. There's minimal wobble and you mained a consistent flow throughout the exercise. Good job!
Take note that there should be minimal fraying at the starting point. It's not overtly glaring, but do keep this in mind moving forward.
Ghosted lines - There's slight wobbles near the ending of your lines. Slowing down or uncomfortable shoulder position is what usually causes wobbliness. Experiment with speeding up your strokes, irregardless of accuracy, at different shoulder positions. Accuracy will naturally come with practice.
Planes - Your lines are looking better here. I notice some of your lines are breaking/halting in the middle, hence breaking the flow of the line. Try to avoid turning this into a habit, as these lines can create the "chicken scratchy" effect, which lacks energy and flow.
Elipses
Good effort on exploring size variations in your table. Be sure to draw through your elipses 2 - 3 times to solidify the shape. Likewise, to avoid wobbliness in your elipses. Build up speed while ghosting your elipses before putting down the line.
Funnels - Same as your table. Be sure to draw through your elipses
Boxes
Rough perspective - Be sure to plot your converging lines to the horizon line and not the vanishing point. Plotting back to the horizon line shows how far your converagence are "drifting" from the VP, and makes for good learning to see how far your lines are off.
Rotated boxes - Strong attempt here. Be sure to push the "back face" of the first box a little further behind into space. So that the rest of the boxes will be more proportionately correct. If the back face of the box is too close to the front face, it'll create boxes which are thin.
The boxes around the edges are the hardest for our brain to wrap around as it foreshortens very sharply. You will get better at this as you tackle the 250 box challenge. I highly recommend closely observing the homework examples provided by Uncomfortable as references when doing the challenge as well. Also as a means of acquainting yourself with the harder, trickier angles.
Organic perspective - Good attempt here. Be sure to keep the confidence and flow of your lines when doing boxes as well. Using dots to pre-plan (just like the ghosted line exercise) is a good method to premeditate your lines before drawing.
You can also darken the edges of your boxes to show overlapping between boxes which are infront and behind.
Next Steps:
Good job on lesson 1!
Table of elipses
1 page of table of elipses - be sure to draw through 2 - 3 times for each elipses. Build up speed while ghosting your lines to avoid wobbliness in elipse shape.
Rough perspective
1 page of rough perspective. Be sure to plot back to the horizon line and not the vanishing point.
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