Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
1:08 PM, Saturday May 21st 2022
Thank you for giving time to criticize My work. ARIGATHANKS
Hi Darklight,
I took a look at your submission.
Your lines in the first excercise look confident I wold just suggest being alittle more careful of where you are placing your pen when you start. There were quite a few lines that were frayed on both ends a little.
I noticed that a lot of of lines did not connect or stopped short on your ghosted planes. Just make sure your are using the ghosting method and I think you are aple to plot your start and end point on these as well. I find that it helps me keep an image of where I am going to be stopping my line.
Your ellipses look fine, I'm pretty sure they will continue to improve as your practice them.
I did not really see many overlapping ellipses on the table and they look like your drew them pretty confidently.
Plotted perspective looks great so I don't have anything to say about that.
On the rough perspective I would just point out that you want to make your width lines parallel to the horizon line. You had a few that the line was slightly off.
Your rotated boxes look good. All the corners between boxes are close and they all seem to be be rotating . So good job on that.
Organic perspective is alright as well. The boxes didn't really have any line weight on them. Not sure if it was because the pen ran out but I think the line weight would have helped a lot more on this exercise. Your perspective was a little off on the boxed as well but you will have plenty of opportunities to practice your line weight and perspective in the 250 box challenge.
Good work.
Next Steps:
I think you can move on to the 250 box challenge. Just make sure you are varying the line weight on your boxes.
Thank you very much for the feedback and Time.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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