Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:31 PM, Tuesday January 19th 2021
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2:59 PM, Wednesday January 20th 2021
Hello ran, well done completing all the lesson 1 exercises.
Lines
Super Imposed Lines: Good. Lines are drawn smoothly and only fray at one end.
Ghosted Lines: A couple of little wobbles here and there, but you clearly have the right idea, well done.
Ghosted Planes: A little bit of oveshooting, but lines are smooth and straight, good work.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses: Good job keeping the ellipses within the bounds, each ellipse touching each other, without overlapping. You've drawn through them 2-3 times too, well done. A little bit of wobbliness on a couple of them, be sure to ghost these and draw from the shoulder. It gets easier with practice.
Ellipses in Planes: Good work.
Ellipses in Funnels: Good work.
Boxes
Plotted Perspective: Good work. If you're going to use hatcing lines, draw them with the same care as everything else.
Rough Perspective: Good understanding of the exercise. Good job keeping width lines parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to horizon.
Rotated Boxes: Good effort. You've got all the boxes in there, and you've drawn through them all too. Good use of plotting your points and ghosting to keep your lines stright too, well done. Rotation is fairly good too. Another reminder, if you're gonna hatch, do it neatly. Some of your hatching just looks scribbley here and it's such a shame because otherwise this is very nice work.
Organic Perspective: Good job. You're making the boxes smaller as they get further away and most of them are drawn cleanly. A couple of repeating lines though. No matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should keep the line as it if were correct and move on.
Next Steps:
Congratulations on completing lesson one!
Overall a very solid set of homework, well done.
Move on to the 250 box challenge.
Use lesson one exercises for warm ups.
8:19 AM, Thursday January 21st 2021
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