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6:37 AM, Thursday October 21st 2021
Welcome to drawabox! I’ll be taking a look at your submission today. Before I start, if you’d be so kind as to take pictures from the top, next time (it’s okay if there’s a shadow), the TA will appreciate it. Now then~
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look mostly good, though I’d like to draw your attention to a few things. First, you should be using points to mark their starts/ends, not lines. Second, the non-diagonal center lines of your planes need these, too. Finally, if a line comes out wrong, leave it as-is. Correcting an incorrect line doesn’t fix it – it just draws the viewer’s attention to your blunder.
The table of ellipses exercise looks solid. Your ellipses are smooth, and rounded, but not properly drawn through. Mostly, you’ll settle for 1 rotation and change; for the smaller ones, you’ll not even bother to go beyond one. Be a little more patient, please. This applies to your ellipses in planes, too. Also, I feel like you could spend a little longer ghosting these – most of them overshoot their bounds by quite a bit. For the funnels, I’ll recommend drawing the 2 arcing lines first, then placing the minor axis between them (so as to give it its best chance of being equidistant from them).
The plotted perspective exercise is missing its back lines.
The rough perspective exercise is a bit of a mess. For one, there’s a lot of automatic reinforcing present here, making it hard to tell what’s going on, though we’ve already talked about that. As far as I can tell (because the correction lines show how the line should’ve looked rather than how off you were) your boxes look solid enough, but it’s important to take your time here, still. 90% of this exercise is planning.
The rotated boxes exercise is a little rough. It’s a complicated exercise, so I can understand getting overwhelmed, and going on auto-pilot, but it’s important, when you’re overwhelmed especially, to take a step back, and approach things slowly, with a clear head. Really, my issue with this exercise isn’t that it’s wrong (most are; all are meant to be!), but rather that you’ve not actually plotted any start/end points, either thinking that you know better, or that it doesn’t matter – both would be incorrect.
This seems to be the case for the organic perspective exercise, too. I’ll remind you that you’re meant to be using the ghosting method for every single mark that you make for this course, and hopefully beyond, too. By the way, you’re meant to submit 2 pages of this exercise. What’s here is good (though you seem to have misunderstood shallow foreshortening for fully parallel boxes – not quite the same), if a little messy.
Next Steps:
Before I have you move on to the box challenge, I’d like to see a few things. 1 page of ellipses in planes, 1 quadrant (so ¼) of rotated boxes, and the missing page of organic perspective. GL!
11:38 PM, Thursday October 21st 2021
6:25 AM, Friday October 22nd 2021
I only requested a quadrant of the rotated of the rotated boxes exercise, so you didn't need to waste your time on any more of it, but anyway. Everything is much improved - nice job! Just one thing: in the organic perspective exercise, don't just use the points to plan the direction of your lines, but their lengths, too. Meaning, once you've got one point for each line, that tells you the direction they're going to head in, take another second to ghost those lines, find their intersection, and place a point there (as opposed to just extending them, and having them intersect, and overshoot.
Next Steps:
Anyway, I'll move you on to the box challenge now. Good luck!
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