Hi,
I just finish lesson 1 and i wish to move on and start the 250 box challenges, so tell me if it's ok or not :D
Normally it should be in the right order.
Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your lesson 1 homework.
Lines
-The superimposed lines are off to a great start as you have always started from a clearly defined point and kept all of the wavering on one side, they are drawn with a good deal of confidence. We do have the expected fraying at the ends but this tends to disappear with more practice and mileage.
-Moving on to the ghosted lines these are also drawn with confidence but I can notice that you have some trouble when it comes to short lines one thing that can help you is to draw your marks a little faster to avoid any chance of hesitation, I also want to remind you that our main goal here is confidence, accuracy tends to come with more mileage and can’t really be forced now.
-The ghosted planes are no different from the ghosted lines, these are turning out nicely.
Ellipses
-Starting with the tables of ellipses they are turning out very nicely, and I can see that you have kept in mind the degree, angle, spacing of these. The only thing I want to call out is that sometimes you forget to draw through your ellipses, so keep an eye for that in the future.
-Moving on to the ellipses in planes your ellipses are not as confident and symmetrical as they were in the previous exercise. . You might be thinking that the centre of the ellipses is the same as the centre of the planes or that you should modify the elliptical ellipse shape so it touches the contact points, but this is not the case. Ellipses have to be symmetrical and have the same shape regardless of where they are, so the only things you can change is how wide the ellipse is, which position it is in and their size.
-The funnels are turning out nicely and you are doing a good job fitting the ellipses within the boundaries without having them spilling out, you are also doing great when aligning them to the minor axis, as they are cut into equal halves by it.
Boxes
-On the rough perspective you are doing a good job aligning the sides of the boxes to the horizon line, and overall your linework looks pretty confident. I can see that you have a tendency to repeat your lines, keep in mind that if you make a mistake you should leave it like that and you should not try to correct it by drawing on top of it as it only makes it stand out more. By getting rid of this habit you will develop the patience and discipline necessary to do your assignments to the best of your ability. Lastly, your estimations to the vanishing point are good and they will get better with practice.
-The rotated boxes are turning out nicely, you have kept the gaps between boxes narrow and consistent, and you have clearly kept in mind the rotation of each box. I can still catch glimpses of you trying to correct your mistakes, I am looking at the box right at the top centre where you tried to correct the upper edge. This may not seem like a big deal but it reinforces the idea that you are just working with a set of lines rather than an actual 3D form. Another minor issue is that you are not drawing through the boxes in the corners.
-Finishing with the organic perspective I can see that you already know how to draw the boxes in 3 point perspective, here we run into the same issues as before, so try to work on that. To conclude, remember that if you have a lot of boxes clumped together you can use lineweight to clarify which ones are at the front and which ones are at the back, here is a diagram of how to apply lineweight correctly.
Anyways, you still have some things to keep working on, so I’ll leave you some additional homework, good luck!!
Next Steps:
Please do the following
-1 page of ghosted planes, and then you will do the ellipses in planes exercise.
Hey ! Thanks for your critique :)
First, the new page of ellipses in planes is in the same link (First position https://imgur.com/a/sGGROEm). Tell me if you don't see it.
So i tried to go a little faster with my ghosted lines and force myself to not correct lines which don't touch the ending point. Then, as you explained it before, i saw that i miss understood a little bit the exercice. This time, my ellipses should be more regular i hope.
By the way, for the rotated boxes, i didn't draw trough the box in the corner cause it was a little to messy and i had trouble to see trough it. I don't know if it's important or not. Finaly, thanks for the tips of line weight ! I will practiss this too when i work in perspective.
Ah Thanks, I can see your ellipses are looking much better and more rounded which is what I wanted to make sure of before letting you move on.
I'll go ahead ad mark this lesson as complete, good luck on the box challenge!!!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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