Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:07 PM, Wednesday August 12th 2020
Here I am, had to repost this. So yeah, I can definitely see mistakes in what I've done here; I could also have redone these again and again and post a somewhat closer to ideal final form of this homework. That wouldn't help me much though, I feel like at that moment in time that was all I could do, and I prefer to let the feedback go to those first attempts, because those eloquently show my misunderstandings and my gaps regarding the spatial sense.
Have to mention that some time passed between the rotated boxes exercise and the organic perspective one. After trying a few times the rotated boxes exercise, I was still confused and couldn't draw through the boxes properly. When I moved on to the organic perspective exercise, I was even more confused, as I just couldn't think about both the size(drawing from bigger to smaller) and the lines behind(those which are not visible). I just took a break from the exercise after this, with the idea that before tackling it once again, I really must try visualizing the boxes more, and drawing them systematically in my sketchbook: boxes seen above the line of sight, behind the line of sight and boxes perpendicular to the line of sight. Then I simply tryed to rotate these along the height axes. Rotating them along the width axes can be easily done by simply rotating the page and respecting the VPs, I guess. The depth axes may be a problem for me still, I'm not sure. Currently this is also a mental exercise I'm doing, trying to rotate boxes along each axes. When drawing them, I think I can at least say whether something is off or not. There is a box I gave as an example, in the perspective organic exercise. That box was not the only one I drew like that. I named the invisible lines AB and BC. Should I actually draw the AB line shorter? If so, BC will be longer and less convergent? When I drew it, I just tryed to respect the parallelism between each set of lines, but the plane which is behind seems off(elongated). It confuses me... Also, there are boxes where I simply went with the flow and I didn't ghost the line too much before drawing it. Is it okay? If I would have to guess, the rough perspective exercise and the rotated boxes exercise are the ones I messed up the most. This is getting too large, hopefully I gave all my thoughts.