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8:09 AM, Sunday July 5th 2020
Heya,
Congrats on finishing the first lesson!
Some things I noticed:
Lines:
Superimposed – for the most part pretty good, however, in some cases towards the ends of your lines they begin to arch back towards the ruled line – keeping these lines straight is more important than keeping them close to the ruler initially. Not too bad, but just watch out if you do this exercise again as a warmup and make sure that you’re pivoting from the shoulder. Curved lines are a little wobbly but just keep practicing.
Ghosted lines – Looking pretty confident, nice work! They don’t always meet the points you've put down, but that’ll come with practice.
Ghosted Planes – Again pretty good.
Ellipses:
Tables – You’ve drawn through and for the most part they look pretty fluid. In a couple of places the degrees seem to vary a little, but not too badly. My main issue is that the ellipses should be touching the edges of the box and those next to it so that they fully fill their space – yours seem to be floating in space
Funnels – Mostly alright, but in a few places the minor axis of the ellipses doesn’t really align with the centreline you’ve drawn.
Planes – Same with the tables, the ellipses aren’t always meeting up with the edges of the planes (should touch the plane in the middle of each outer edge), which means the appearance of the ellip0ses being rotated in space doesn’t come through
Boxes:
Plotted perspective – Great!
Rough perspective – Pretty good, just make sure that the horizontal and vertical lines you draw are always parallel to the page as some of them show a decent amount of slant.
Rotated boxes – You did good for such a difficult exercise. I’m guessing you just drew the squares at the edges (representing boxes turned through the full 90 degrees) too far out and weren’t able to connect them. You’ve managed to get a pretty decent sense of the boxes rotating through space which is good, but you’ve missed a box on each of the corners.
Organic Perspective – boxes show a nice sense of depth through reduction in size, so good work on that. Sometimes the sets of lines don’t really seem to be converging towards vanishing points, but the 250 boxes will fix that.
Overall really good effort, most of the issues I can see are fairly minor and will be fixed with practice. All I recommend is doing some more ellipses and really making sure they fill the space they’re given.
Next Steps:
1 page of ellipse tables, making sure they touch the edges of the box and any adjacent ellipses. Make sure the rotation of the degrees stays consistent also.
12:12 PM, Sunday July 5th 2020
Hey,
thank you very much for the critique, i really appreciate it!
Its really hard not to jugdge oneself harshly while doing these exercises.
I did the revision here: https://imgur.com/3MY3fPo
Its a bit better but all i can say is i tried to get it right.
3:32 PM, Monday July 6th 2020
Yeah, they look better. Just keep practicing ellipses and any other exercises you think need work from time to time when warming up and they'll improve no problem.
Unfortunately judging yourself is just kinda natural when learning something new, all I can recommend is trying not to worry too much and appreciating that even getting a result you're not happy with is still a good thing as you took the time to try to improve, and have likely learnt a thing or two along the way.
Still, great job finishing the lesson - enjoy the box challenge!
Next Steps:
Keep practicing some of the basic exercises when warming up
Begin the 250 box challenge
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