10:08 PM, Thursday May 13th 2021
Thanks for being so cool, ScyllaStew! Okay, in the future I’ll just let the work the speak for itself, and wait to commiserate until after the grading. Your encouragement really meant a lot, and I appreciate your substantial critique and respect your veteran wisdom. Also, I’ll definitely implement your method of plotting all the points first, as I always ran into the situation you describe of getting to the invisible corner and having two sets of lines working alright and one way off, but because I had already drawn all the other lines, I just had to go with it.
Please before I begin your follow up assignment could I ask you about three things?
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About the line weight, I read somewhere Uncomfortable talking about adding line weight to only “localized” parts of a line, and the example you provided showed the weight not extending the full length of the line. For the silhouette of a box, do we want the extra weight lines to just match the original silhouette lines as much as possible though? And please, am I correct that this procedure of adding weight is similar to the first exercise of Superimposed Lines, but with ghosting of course, and as for the tapering and seamless blending, if I’ve already frayed by the end of the weight line I should just leave it right?
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For the hatching, I think I was trying to make it too tight and ghosting that many lines seemed daunting—I think it was in your fineliner review videos where I saw you ghost the first line of hatching and then just continue on after that, but I know I’m not advanced enough to do that. If I have to ghost every single shading line could I make the hatching less dense?
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And as for the convergences, I really cherish your hint you gave me about the middle lines appearing close to parallel, and I’ll work to make the other parallel lines not appear parallel but really converge in real 3-point perspective; however, is there any relationship you could describe about where to chart the vanishing points relative to each other? Should they all be at roughly the same distance? I just noticed when I mapped one significantly further or closer than the others, that box appeared more distorted, but I don’t know if an object would actually ever appear like this in reality.
Thank you so much again and I hope I didn’t overwhelm you with my requests and I look forward to getting more practice before moving on to Lesson 2.
P.s. I really love you and Uncomfortable and I feel honored to be one of your students.
Daniel