Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:27 PM, Sunday August 17th 2025
This one should actually work and have the other box drawings (sorry Marble)
Strengths:
Confident lines on ghosted planes and ellipses in planes
Ellipses touching most corners in planes
Most ellipses in tables are not overlapping
Most lines are going back very close to the vanishing point on the ghosted perspective exercise
Rotating boxes - good rotation of boxes, and boxes are close together
Organic perspective - most boxes are converging well or pretty close. Good variation in size and shape of boxes.
Challenges:
Ellipses in funnels are all the same width. Ellipses in the center should be thinner than ellipses on the sides, to indicate depth. Remember that as a shape moves farther away from the viewer, its back edge rotates toward the viewer, so that more of its face is visible to the viewer.
Vanishing points are off of the page on the plotted perspective exercise.
Rotating boxes - boxes toward the top and bottom center are much more rectangular than original box in the middle center.
Organic perspective - some boxes are not converging quite enough, some lines which should be receding are a bit to parallel
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.
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