Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:05 PM, Sunday May 10th 2020
I have finished the lesson 1.Please criticize my homework.I'm excited.
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12:26 PM, Wednesday May 13th 2020
Hey! I’ll be looking through this~
Starting off, your lines look pretty good! There’s a tiny bit of wobble in your arcing superimposed lines, so I’ll recommend being a little less mindful of the guideline, next time. It’s okay to miss it, so long as the resulting line is confident. For the planes, I’d recommend placing start/end points for your non-diagonal center lines, too. Also, be sure to maintain a consistent speed throughout the entirety of the line. I notice a little bit of a wobble at the end of it, for those.
The ellipses are, for the most part, okay. One major problem is that you haven’t gone around them 2-3 times, as instructed. In the table of ellipses exercise, it’s important for ellipses of a same frame to be of a similar degree/tilt, so try to remember that. In the ellipses in planes exercise, be careful that the ellipse doesn’t end up deformed- same as in the lines section, it’s more important for us to be confident, than accurate.
Moving on to the box section, the first thing I’ll remind you of are the rules regarding automatic reinforcing- you shouldn’t be correcting an incorrect line. As you likely noticed from the correction lines, there’s a lot of really obvious mistakes in the rough perspective exercise, that don’t quite improve by page 2. My guess is that you’re getting a little too caught up on what you think a box should look like. Really, all you need to be thinking about is the VP. Ghost every line towards it, place points in its path, and only when you’re satisfied with said points commit to said line. Though the rotation is a but minimal, the rotated boxes exercise is quite nicely done. The same thing can be said about the organic perspective exercise. Nice job, in particular, in keeping the foreshortening of your boxes consistent, and shallow- that’s not easy!
Next Steps:
Before I send you off to the box challenge, I’d like to see the following: 1 page of table of ellipses, 1 page of ellipses in planes, and 1 page of rough perspective, being particularly mindful of my instructions for each one.
9:52 AM, Wednesday May 27th 2020
I have done the revision and here they are.I noticed that when I do rough perspective,I ghost from V.P to the point I made when I actually draw the line.I start from the point I made and I look for the lines besides it and draw.I'm trying to change it. I will do these more and submit more in the future.
Thank you very much for criticising my homework.
8:59 PM, Friday May 29th 2020
Nicely done, on all accounts. There’s a liiitle too much focus on accuracy, rather than confidence, when it comes to your ellipses, it feels like, so try to reel that in a little more, if you can. Other than that, nicely done. Do continue practicing all of these things, as per the instructions in Lesson 0, but, for the purposes of this critique, you’re good to go!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
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