Watsup! I've been watching trough lesson 6 and was a bit confused by placing an ellipse inside a quadrangle. After some school geometry level research I've come to conclusion that minor axis matches with a line that connects center of an ellipse with a wanishing point of a perpendicular plane. With this knowledge it becomes so much easier to fill anything with ellipses.
That is correct, and was outlined back in Lesson 1 when the minor axis was first introduced as a concept (specifically this section). Not all students immediately understand this however, as the concept of something being perpendicular to a plane in 3D space being related to a line we draw on a two dimensional ellipse can be very confusing at first.
Wow, thanks, I've missed that somehow( A little suggestion - maybe you could use non-symmetrical quadrangles in examples? placing an ellipse into symmetrical one is a bit intuitive, I think. Anyway thank you for your work. I' ve been studying your lessons for 4 months now. The biggest progress I ever got!
By non-symmetrical quadrangles, do you mean something like the ellipses in planes exercise?
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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