Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:30 PM, Friday March 5th 2021
Hello :)
First submission for Lesson 1, thanks if anyone has a little bit of time to comment !
Hi, congratulations for finishing lesson 1!!
Here are my thoughts:
Lines
Overall, your lines are very smooth and confident, especially on the ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercises. The longer lines are quite wobbly in the superimposed lines, make sure you are drawing from your shoulder and not hesitating when carrying through the stroke.
Ellipses
Your ellipses are also drawn with confidence.
Make sure you are drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times. You haven't done this in some of the exercises such as the table of ellipses. Drawing through them helps you to build up muscle memory in your arm so the shape comes out more even and smooth.
Your ellipses in the table of ellipses are nicely touching each other and the table without a lot of overlap, good job.
Boxes
Boxes are drawn with smooth and straight lines.
In the rough perspective exercise, the width lines should be drawn parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon. The width lines on the back face of some of your boxes are sloping downwards: https://imgur.com/a/pT3c8J1
For the rotated boxes exercise, I don't think your boxes are actually rotating that much, hence the overall square shape. Please refer to this for what I mean:
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating
I would recommend watching the video on this exercise once or twice if you haven't done so as it helped me a lot with understanding.
Good attempt at the rotated boxes exercise, you could make more of the boxes overlap next time.
Overall, I would say well done. Your lines are already very smooth and straight! Don't worry too much about the issues in the rough perspective and rotated boxes, you will gain a greater understanding of perspective after the 250 boxes challenge which will really improve your understanding of how boxes exist in 3D space.
Next Steps:
The funnels exercise is missing from this submission, please attach it.
Hi !
Thank you so much for your thoughts and opinion !
I worked hard on the lines so I'm happy they look good (gonna keep doing that !)
I have trouble with the ellipse so I'm going to apply your suggestion when I'll be doing ellipses !
For the rotated boxes exercise I hesitate to redo it, but I think I'll wait 'till I have finished the 250 Boxes challenge. But I agree with you, it lacks of rotation
Here is the link to the funnel exercice, I forgot to put it in the first submission ! https://imgur.com/Yb3T9Ey
Again, thanks a lot for your time and comments ! :D
Hi again,
I'm happy you found my thoughts helpful :)
I've had a look at your funnels, your ellipses are very smooth! However, some of them aren't aligned properly to the minor axis line i.e. they're not cut into perfect halves, so work on that in future warm ups.
For reference: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned
Next Steps:
250 boxes challenge! Wish you the best of luck :D
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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