So, I'm learning how to draw, i read "drawing with the right side of the brain", but that's all my experience. I think I had a lot of trouble on the last two exercises, therefore I want to start the 250 boxes challenge.
Please advice me to do it better, thanks.
Hey Pakas342, here's some thoughts on your exercises:
Lines
The ghosted lines are well done, even the longer ones. The superimposed lines all start at the same point, which is good, and some are just a little messier than others. Overall, decent work, and you'll definitely improve on this over time.
Ellipses
The first ellipses are by far the messiest, I can tell you struggled with these. Over time, though, you got better with line confidence and keeping them in their boundaries. I'll just recommend reviewing the page on ellipses and submitting another table.
Boxes
The plotted and rough perspectives are all well done, no problems there. The rotated boxes are definitely challenging, but you definitely got the idea of rotation in there. As for the organic perspectives, as Jekettex said, they all look like they're facing in the same direction. I recommend reviewing the page on organic perspective, then trying this again, maybe after you do the 250 Box Challenge.
Overall, it's decent work and you've already shown great improvement. Just work on your ellipses and boxes some more and you're good to go!
Next Steps:
Review the page on ellipses and submit another table of ellipses.
Also before working on the 250 Box Challenge, review the page on boxes.
Hi, this is my revision of the ellipses table, I think it went a lot better, thanks n.n
Hi Toughsnow
I appreciate that you divided your critic in aspects, it's really helpful to understand which one are you referring to.
I pretty much agree on everything you said, and thanks for the steps, be sure I'll try to do the ellipses again, and re-reading the box page to understand more about rotation. Hopefully you'll see it soon.
Thanks for your time, gratefully,
Pakas342
Hi!
I'm at the same stage as you so I'm not sure how much I can give in the way of solid advice. That being said, I've noticed in the last of the exercises, organic perspective, most of your boxes are oriented similarly (in terms of the angle at which we're observing them). If you want to alter the rotation, try playing around with the initial 'Y' of the construction process. This little tool does a good job of illustrating what i'm getting at https://tasty-tangy-meeting.glitch.me/. For instance, you could make the angle between two of the initial lines just under 180 degrees (that would be a flat line), to give just a hint of one of the faces, rather than giving equal measure to all the angles (this leads to directly looking a corner). You could also try throwing in a couple boxes in one point and two point perspective (creating boxes where the viewer is directly looking at a face and looking at an edge respectively) for variation, to really hammer the concept of the box in 3D space.
Another thing I'll mention is line confidence. I'm hesitant to say much here because I'm far from where I want to be myself, but something I've learned is to value a confident straight line that isn't directed exactly where it was intended, over a hesitant, wobbly line that eventually reaches its mark. I'm still struggling with this but hopefully through repetition and keeping with the ghosting method it'll pan out for us both! Also, I recommend ditching the blue ballpoint in favour of the pens recommended on the site when you can. I know I definitely prefer using them!
All the best,
Jekettex
Hi Jekettex. Thanks a lot for your advices, i think you went straight to the important things and I appreciate.
The tool that you suggest really help me on understanding how that initial Y could variate, so be sure i'll give it a try.
Yep, at some point i found myself drawing lines like i use to do (slow, wobbly and not from the shoulder) even if i tried to not, i think that deals a lot with practice, so let's work on it together, and hopefully see each other on higher lessons n.n
Gratefully,
Pakas342
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