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Hey, I’ll be looking over your work.
Starting off, your lines look quite good. There’s a tiny bit of fraying present in your superimposed lines, so I’d recommend taking an extra half a second longer to line up your pen. In the ghosted planes exercise, I’d recommend plotting start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines, by the way. Remember that every line needs start/end points.
Moving on, the ellipse section is quite nicely done. Be careful that you’re not going around them too many times, though. 2-3 times is the recommendation- ideally 2.
The box section is where you start running into a few issues. In the plotted perspective exercise, your VPs are a little too close to each other, so you’ve encountered some distortion. Read more about that here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7/distortion There’s also an instance where the set of lines that should run perpendicular to the horizon, doesn’t. I’d normally ignore this, thinking of it as an experiment, but it makes an appearance in your rough perspective exercise, too. In both of these exercises, the horizon line of those ‘tilted’ boxes is different from the one you’ve plotted out, making them incorrect. In the rough perspective exercise, in particular, to adhere to the horizon line, one set of lines needs to be fully horizontal, and another fully vertical. By the way, the requirement is 2 pages of this exercise, but you’ve only submitted one. The remaining 2 exercises are fairly well done, but I do notice a few things. In both of them, I notice a habit to correct an incorrect line. This is called automatic reinforcing, and it’s discouraged. Also, in the organic perspective exercise, it seems like you’re extending your lines arbitrarily, rather than planning them, and extending them as far as the points you’ve placed. This, too, is incorrect.
Overall, this is a solid submission, but I would like to see some extra pages before I allow you to move on to the box challenge.
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I’d like to see one more page (the missing page, I suppose) of the rough perspective exercise, where 2 sets of lines run parallel/perpendicular to the horizon, and one set heads to the VP, and one more page of the organic perspective exercise, where you don’t overshoot your lines.
Thank you so much for your critique. Sorry for the late reply, I didn't get the notification and only realized you left a critique when I came back to upload the 250 box challenge.
I will definitely work on not reinforcing my lines. Also about the arbitray extensions I think I was not planning the lines as well as missing where the stopping point should have been because of the lack of planning. Later one when I started to plan and put a point where I wanted to end my accuracy improved. It's still something I need to work on though as from time to time I still miss the mark.
Here are the 1 page of rough perspective and another organic perspective pages. I somehow missed that I needed 2 rough perspective pages. For some reason my lines are really wobbly. I think because I took a huge break to upload and edit the 34 images for the 250 boxes, looking back I should have done a warm up first.
Nicely done, on both accounts. In regards to the rough perspective exercise, i'd recommend spending a little more time on the planning phase, given the few obvious errors, and as for the organic perspective exercise i'd recommend being a little more careful in regards to the foreshortening of the far-off boxes. You'll remember that dramatic foreshortening implies an object of a large scale, or one that's really close to us, neither of which have any place that far off into the distance. Anyway, all these are are things to keep in mind for the daily practice portion of these exercises, which, hopefully, you're doing daily~
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250 Box Challenge
I'll also quickly mention that having a lesson marked as complete means that you're now able to look at other lesson 1 submissions, and critique them. This is entirely optional, of course, but i usually recommend it because it's a great way to retain all of this information.
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.
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