Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:33 PM, Wednesday November 24th 2021

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This is the full lesson 1 that I did. Please give me your critiques, thank you!

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4:23 PM, Wednesday November 24th 2021
edited at 4:24 PM, Nov 24th 2021

Hi Asfiruu! Let's go over each section from your submission.

Lines

  • Your superimposed lines are mostly smooth & confidently drawn, not to mention there are no fraying on starting position. Long lines can use some practice though.

  • Nice work on doing your ghosted lines smoothly & having them meet the other end. Ghosted planes turned out great thanks to them.

Ellipses

  • Your ellipses are smooth, drawn over multiple times & touches their goals in table of ellipses & funnels. After completing a page in table of ellipses, be sure to fill all of the empty space with small ellipses, more practice is never bad.

  • Good job in keeping the ellipses in planes within the bounds of the planes, they missed some of the expected goals but accuracy will improve over time.

Boxes

  • You forgot to plot back edges for many boxes in plotted perspective. Please keep them in mind when doing this exercise in warm ups, also plot them in this page.

  • Your boxes in rough perspective are drawn as instructed, they're nearly converging toward their vanishing point.

  • You seem to understand the boxes in 3d space as I saw in your rotated boxes. Couple of things you can keep in mind is to only gradually rotated the boxes & keep gaps between all of them nearly equals.

  • You've conveyed the depths in frames of organic perspective.

Your boxes are sometime diverging from their vanishing points in last 2 exercises, you can greatly improve on this when doing the box challenge.

Overall you've done theses exercises as intended. Congrats! on completing lesson 1.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move on to 250 Box Challenge. Keep doing exercises from lesson 1 in warm ups & if some exercises take too much time, do just a portion of them.

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edited at 4:24 PM, Nov 24th 2021
1:59 AM, Saturday December 4th 2021

Thank you for the feedback! I'll try to practice more and doing warm up when I do the boxes challenge!

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