Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
4:04 PM, Sunday February 18th 2024
Here's the homework for lesson 1! Thank you!
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2:59 PM, Monday February 19th 2024
Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.
Overall you did an excellent job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes with a great accuracy. Nothing much to say except keep up the good work!
Ellipses
Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it snugly in their respective planes. I have to say though that you're getting a bit more wobbly here compared to your tables of ellipses, like you're trying to hit all 4 edges of the planes and sacrificing your confidence in the process. Remember to prioritize confidence over accuracy.
The funnels on the other hand are looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis and carried the same confidence as in previous exercises. I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice.
Boxes
The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective.
You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective. One thing I want to mention is that be careful of putting the VP of 1 point perspective way off to the side, as you risk skewing the boxes further to the side (where 2 VP is more suitable for these boxes). Generally, anywhere around the center is fine for 1 point perspective.
As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.
Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid. Plus you'll have plenty of chance to experiment with them in the 250 box challenge.
Anyway, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson and ready to put them into practice in warmups. Again, congratulations and keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge.
Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.
6:22 PM, Friday March 22nd 2024
Sorry for the later answer, but thank you so much for your reply and critique of this homework. I'm excited to continue with these lessons! Thank you again!
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