Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:57 AM, Tuesday January 26th 2021
The reason why there are three ghosted-plane pages is because the first looked rushed and sloppy. You can consider 2 and 3 to be proper attempts.
I should have used a frame for the table of ellipses. I didn’t realise the example had one until I had already done it. I have used frames for the perspective drawings, where applicable. I am aware that I made a similar mistake of ‘running off the page’ on the funnels exercise too. I know that I should go to the effort of making a frame for each exercise.
I know I have weighted the edges incorrectly in the plotted perspective exercise. I watched the video, but I didn’t realise that you shouldn’t go-over the internal edges, until I read the rough perspective page. It’s confusing to me how to know where to put the line weight. From what I gathered, weighting must be subtle and cannot be on the internal edges, but I don’t know what part of an edge I should add it to.
In the rotated boxes exercise, I should have done the square guides in pencil. At-least once, I confused them with the edges of the outer box I was drawing. The boxes aren't symmetrical about the axes, as some are shaped differently. I attempted to weight some of the box edges, but I don’t fully understand how to do it with ghosting. If you want to be subtle, you don’t want to cover the whole line again, correct? Should I ghost over just one end of the line? It’s not very clear. My attempt looks too messy, so I didn’t weight all the boxes. The box depth is inconsistent too, especially in the top-left.
Organic perspective was slightly better on the second page. Some of the ghosting and weighting is messy.
I would appreciate any feedback. I'm looking for motivation to move-onto the 250-box challenge.