Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:16 PM, Saturday April 25th 2020
Appreciate constructive feedback. Thank you in advance!
Firstly, grats on clearing lesson 1! Good on you for pushing through to the end to get it done! And now for my crit.
Lines: In general, good work. A good majority of your lines are straight and confident. A couple of your lines are a little bit wobbly, but I'd attribute that to getting used to ghosting. In future warmups though, do try to create longer lines, as this would further test your ability to ghost confidently with your shoulder. That aside, good work here!
Ellipses: Again, wonderful job here. I can see the shape of the ellipse without much mishaping, and they're done mostly with great confidence. In your funnels, though, there are some ellipses that are a little tilted, and so not aligned to the minor axis. Try to watch out for that.
Boxes: They're fine. I'll note that in general, you can make several planning points before executing your lines. I recommend placing a point and ghosting a little, and in doing so, you can estimate if the line is correctly angled and/or of the correct size. This can potentially prevent the diagonals as in your rough perspective, as planning would generally allow you to iron out the obvious diagonals.
Your rotated boxes look not bad. Though you need to also consider that the bottom faces should also converge, so the bottom faces don't look too "flat".
Organic perspective is done pretty well. While box construction isn't perfect, you'll be able to iron that out soon in the upcoming challenge. In addition, you can use line weight in the future to clarify overlaps between the boxes.
Overall, I think you've done a pretty good job here. You've shown understanding of the main learning points of each exercise, and executed them with pretty good compentency. Give yourself a pat on the back, and prepare to work in the box mines for a while.
Next Steps:
Its time for 250 boxes! Good luck, and don't forget to do your warmups!
As I said on Discord, thank you for your time and thoughtful critcism.
Next step: the box mines.
I'm Brazilian and I don't speak English well, but I'll try.
First of all congratulations on your dedication!
On pages 8 and 9, with the quadrilateral divided into halves simulating perspective, with the ovoids drawn inside, I saw in a Peter Han video that you should draw such ellipses with the inclination of the greater diagonal of the quadrilateral, if they are circles in perspective , so that the most distant ends of the ellipse almost touch the most distant corners of the quadrilateral.
Was I clear?
Inspiring to see the dedication to the exercises!
Makes you want to draw.
Thanks
Don't worry, I'm brazilian too.
Frist of all, I really appreciate your compliments. I'd worked my ass off on this exercises!
Regard to the criticism, what a coincidence, I'd watched the same video before submit the lesson! But it was too late :(
I'll keep that in mind, thanks for pointing that out and for your comments as well.
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