Hi.
This is my first attempt at Lesson 1. Before posting this, I was planning to start over because some exercises, such as the Tables of ellipses or the Organic perspective were a bit messy. But at the end of it all I decided to post this anyway.
Hi, first of all well done for completing lesson 1 :)
Here's what I think about your submission:
Lines
Your lines are confident and smooth, with very little wobbling.
For the superimposed lines exercise, I noticed you have fraying on both ends of the line. I would suggest taking the time to place your pen properly at the start of each line so the beginning will be neater.
Ellipses
Make sure to only draw through the ellipses maximum 3 times. I can see you draw around the ellipses quite a lot, this is especially noticeable in the table of ellipses and the ghosted planes. This makes it hard for you to see if the shape of the ellipses are accurate. You improved on this in the funnels exercise.
The minor axis (the line in the middle) cuts the ellipses in 2 symmetrical halves quite nicely in the funnels exercise, good job.
Boxes
In many of the boxes such as those in the rough perspective and organic perspective exercises, you repeat lines. What I mean is that when a line goes off course you draw another line to replace it. Next time, just keep the original line as if you meant to place it there and move on.
In the rough perspective exercise some of the lines are very far away from the vanishing point, don't worry this is normal and you will improve as you keep practising. The important thing to note is that the boxes still look relatively normal, so don't feel like everything has to line up with the vanishing point perfectly.
Good effort on the rotated boxes exercise. Remember that as the box rotates, you should see less and less of the front face:
There are perspective issues in the organic perspective exercise, but do not stress about it right now as you will improve after the 250 box challenge. The same goes for rotated boxes.
Overall, a decent submission :)
Next Steps:
One page of the table of ellipses exercise, this time only drawing through your ellipses a maximum of 3 times (2 is ideal)
Thanks!
I have already completed lesson 1 through official submissions. Regarding my ellipses and squares, I redid all of them before submitting to the official critique.
Here are the tables of ellipses and boxes.
Very well done! A lot of improvement :)
Next Steps:
I think you already know to move on to the 250 boxes challenge from the official critique, so I wish you the best of luck :)
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