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4:37 PM, Monday July 13th 2020
Yup- well done!
Next Steps:
Next, let’s have the vanishing points be just off the page. Not so far off that the lines are parallel, or even close to parallel, just barely off the page. What this means is that you won’t (or rather, can’t) plot or label your VPs, but you will still visualize them. Give me one page of these boxes.
7:15 PM, Tuesday July 14th 2020
6:44 AM, Thursday July 16th 2020
Hmmm.
Box 285 is well done. The lines all converge to their respective vanishing points, which are further off than last time, though still dramatic. The other boxes have a mixture of mistakes, some new, some old. Box 281, for instance, has its vanishing points on the page, quite close to itself, too (new mistake.) Conversely, boxes 283 and 284 have some lines that seem ignore them entirely, like the blue lines on the former, and the red lines on the latter (old mistake, which I thought we’d fixed.) I’m, in all honestly, not 100% sure on how to go about fixing this, so what I’ll recommend you do is move on to lesson 2, but continue practicing these in your spare time. I’ll further recommend sticking to dramatic foreshortening (even plotting the vanishing points down, if you wish) until comfortable, before moving on to more shallow foreshortening. Do so gradually, too. Good luck.
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Lesson 2
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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.