Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:27 PM, Tuesday October 17th 2023
I scanned these by my phone so if the quality is bad, i am willing to retake the pictures if necessary.
Thank you and have a nice day!
Hi! You did a great job
Lines:
• Some of your lines are arcing. Try to be more confident and don't forget to draw from the shoulder.
• You have arcs with lines fraying on both ends. Take the time to position your pen.
Everything else is good!
Ellipses:
• Remember that your ellipses should touch all 4 sides of planes. Practice more.
Everything else is good!
Boxes
• In Rough Perspective exercise remember that
All horizontal lines run perfectly parallel to the horizon
All vertical lines run perfectly perpendicular to the horizon
• In Rotated Boxes exercise some of the boxes are not rotated properly (those at the top, left and bottom), their sides should not be parallel.
You need to continue on practicing perspective. I can see how you improve!
Next Steps:
Your next step is 250 box challenge
Thanks for the critique! I will try my best with the 250 box challenge next.
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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