Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:26 AM, Friday November 19th 2021

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Sorry for the weird orientation on a lot of them, I didn't know how to fix it on imgur :( Also the first few pages were done in purple ink, because I was still waiting for my pens to come in. This took me a while because school + thesis kept getting in the way. I did the exercises when I could, but making the actual homework submissions took a while. Anyways, I'd appreciate all the feedback I can get, thank you!

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11:48 PM, Thursday December 9th 2021

o there congrats on finishing lesson one

Lines

There is clear improvement from the first to the second page of the superimposed lines, they look nice and confident.

With the plotted lines, I will ask for you to draw them a bit faster, I can see some change of trajectories which I think is happening because you are not moving fast enough. The ghosted planes look good, nice line work, keep ghosting and drawing those lines confidently.

Ellipses

The ellipses are confident and drawn through great work here. I see some gaps between mostly the smaller ellipses, Keep ghosting and using your shoulder, This will get better with practice. Ghost those small ellipses just as you do the big ones. I see also you struggled with some narrower ellipses, this will also get better with practice over time , just keep doing what you are doing. Confident ellipses on the ghosted planes ellipses exercise too, keep ghosting em. Good work on the funnels too keeping the ellipses touching and not overlapping.

Boxes

Plotted perspective looks solid, So does the rough perspective, keep in mind i rough perspective that the vertical lines of the boxes are perpendicular to the horizon and the horizontal lines are parallel with the horizon. This will help you plot your lines. Although you did an amazing job in the rough perspective just offering a tip here.

The rotated boxes are good and tight-knit but try and keep the gaps consistent, Just try and rotate them a bit more like the following image.

https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6e259e79.jpg

Organic perspective flows nicely, I see some lines you repeated, do not repeat lines, plot, ghost and draw the line. If the line is unsatisfactory, move on to the next line.

Otherwise, you can move on to the 250 box challenge good luck :)

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250 box challenge

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3:38 AM, Saturday February 26th 2022

Thank you so much for this! Apologies for the delay, life happened. But I'm still doing the exercises and I'll start doing the 250 boxes challenge :)

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