Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:43 PM, Monday December 28th 2020
Hi,
Any critics are welcome and thanks for the help.
Congrats on finishing Lesson 1!
Overall, I feel you did really well. There were a few points that I noticed you got caught up on, so I'll list them below.
First off, while your lines aren't generally wobbly, they tend to have a curve to them once they get a bit longer (looking at the ghosted lines exercise). That's natural, but you might need to sacrifice some accuracy and draw faster in order to maintain a consistent trajectory. As always, accuracy comes second to confident lines! If it feels impossible to keep it straight, that might be a sign you're going too slow, and you might need to speed up a bit. It's just practice, so as long as you keep practicing it in your warm-ups and consciously try to correct the error, you should be fine.
Besides that, one thing I noticed in your elipses in planes exercise was that you are sometimes deforming the ellipse in order to keep the 4 edges where it touches the plane on the midpoints. While it's true that an ellipse on a plane receding into space would still touch the edges of the plane at the midpoints, you should also pay attention to the curves between the lines. Touching the plane at the midpoints wasn't the goal, so you should prioritize making a smooth ellipse over that. That being said, I did redline some of them to show how the ellipse would properly deform on a receding plane: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/425968709106925580/793391406588755968/unknown.png
Just focus on making the shape smooth, then you can worry about specifics such as where the ellipse touches the edges of the plane!
For the funnel exercise, it doesn't look like you're lining up the minor plane correctly. If you go back to the "mistakes" section of the funnel exercise, you'll see that the minor plane is the line that cuts the ellipse in half, and that the goal of the exercise was placing an ellipse on a minor plane that already exists.
As far as I understand, you can mess up the minor plane in two ways- one of them is having it too high/low (such as your top two horizontal funnels- where the line cuts some ellipses along the bottom and others towards the top), or if the ellipse is tilted so the minor plane cuts a bit diagonally across the ellipse (such as some of your corner ellipses- such as the third largest on the bottom funnel). I feel part of it was just misplacing the line between the curves before you started, so just keep that in mind for next time and be very careful to place the line as close to the center as you can.
I don't have much to say on the box exercises, as they look fine for the most part. The only thing I would mention is on the rough perspective, where you sometimes curve one of the back lines to match up two misaligned corners. I recommend placing a dot for all 4 corners of the back of the box before drawing lines. After all, a dot is an easy way to see if the back edges are all properly vertical/horizontal before committing with a line. That way, you can fix it and avoid wonky back-facing planes, and make sure your vertical and horizontal edges are going in the right direction.
Next Steps:
Continue practicing the exercises in your warm-ups, and you should be good to move onto the 250 box challenge. Good luck!
Hi,
thanks for the reply it was really helpful, especially the part with the funnels!
I will keep on working on Ellipses and I will try to speed up my line work so that my lines become more straight!
Thanks again !
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