Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:34 PM, Sunday July 31st 2022
I'd just like to thank anyone who critiques this, and ask for suggestions of what to keep in mind before I start the 250 box challenge.
Superimposed lines
There is arching in your lines. Make sure you are making a straight stroke, looking toward the end point
Try not to go beyond or stop short the the end point of the line
There some wobble in the curved lines but overall your lines are confident
Ghosted lines and ghosted planes
Majority are confident strokes, but some are slightly curved
You are hitting about half of the points, make sure to take your time ghosting and are confident in the line you are drawing
Ellipses in ghosted planes
Table of ellipses
You should only be drawing through the ellipses 2 times ideally and 3 times is okay
Take your time to do these - Ghost through the ellipses until you are confident
Funnels
Rough perspective
When plotting the corners of your boxes, ghost while looking toward the vanishing point
Many of your lines are wobbly, ensure you are ghosting every line
Rotated boxes
You have done very well in rotating the boxes
You should have repeated some of your lines multiple times, you should only make one confident line after ghosting unless stated otherwise
It seems you have left out some of the edges on the top and bottom corner boxes
Uncomfortable outlined in the exercise how to add line weight if the lines become confusing
Organic perspective
The sense of perspective is well conveyed with different sized boxes
Towards the end it seems rushed as you have repeated some lines
There are some issues in the construction of your boxes but this will be addressed moving onto the 250 box challenge
Well done for completing the exercise
Next Steps:
You seemed to struggle with ellipses the most so moving forward complete:
1 page of table of ellipses
1 page of funnels
Thanks so much!
Here are my revisions; these definitely aren't perfect, but hopefully there's some improvement?
Thank you for completing the revisions. They look better, still some wobble but try incorporating some ellipse exercises in your warm up and they will improve with time. During the 250 box challenge I’d definitely join the Discord to post my first few pages and then every 10-15 boxes because there are many useful tips people could give you and useful images in the pins section. Also remember it’s hard and not to give up even if you do 1 or 2 a day that’s good enough. Good luck!
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