Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:53 AM, Friday June 3rd 2022
Hello!
Here is my submission for lesson 1
Thanks for any feedback
Hello, lunyssa! These are my comments about your work.
Lines
Let's start with the superimposed lines. I can see you lines fraying at one end, but it's normal as you're beginning the course. I also notice that you keep a single starting point for each line, that's good. However, there is some wobbling in the lines, perhaps, due to the lack of confidence at the moment. You may want to add this exercise to your drawing-warmups as mark-making is a gradually improving skill.
The ghosted lines are generally fine, but to my eye they tend to have a slight bump when approaching ends. Again, prioritize confindence over accuracy. Try examining your arms movement with a conscious effort and then counteract on difficult fragments, so it will compensate arcing and bumping of your lines. There are some ink leftovers near the line ends, you may try lifting your pen off the page the second you hit that end point to get rid of them.
I see that you're ghosting your planes, that's a good thing. Again, the same markmaking comments about the end bumps apply to these lines, but overall a solid work.
Ellipses
Continuing with the ellipses in planes, I see that you tried to keep them touch the edges and each other. Yet, you've overdone the exercise a little bit and drawn through some ellipses more than 3 times. Remember, that for Drawabox you should do it only 2-3 times for each ellipse. Prioritize the symmetry — especially, pay attention to the parts when they are crossing the invisible major axis — and try to make their shape closed. This exercise is particularly useful for warmups.
The ellipses in plane are drawn with the intention of touching the lines, but you should keep more attention to the eveness of their shape, so you wouldn't not get them deformed. However, I see that you improve in this exercise.
The ellipses in funnels are okay, the spacing and alignment is also good. One thing is you could've played a bit more with the degree shift, it would've become useful in the later lessons where this tool is used to convey perspective of round 3D shapes, but it's not required this time.
Boxes
Plotted perspective looks good, hatching of the front sides is also clean, nothing to add here.
Rough perspective is a tough exercise, you did a nice try and used the error-correction method. As you can see, the farther boxes miss the VP more often ending more closely than they should, so just as with the markmaking you may want to try to overshoot it consciously, see that will be the result and then correct again until you nail it.
The rotated boxes task looks surprisingly good, my congratulations! You kept in mind the rotation and used the side of adjacent boxes as hints to draw your other boxes. Maybe, some hatching to emphasize the front sizes would be helpful, but entirely not required.
The organic perspective boxes look rather confident, ghosted and not distorted. Their supposed parallel lines also visibly converge to some VPs, that shows your understanding of the task and how the 3D space works. You will work more on that in the 250 boxes challenge.
To summarize, it looks like you got the purpose of each exercise and put the effort to achieve it. Outside of minor markmaking issues (like arching in the end), that you can fix by paying more attention on them in your warmups and ghosting, in my opinion it's a well-done submission and I'll mark it as complete.
Next Steps:
Proceed to the 250 boxes challenge. If you'll follow the markmaking advice, you should improve it even more.
Thank you for the feedback, this is really helpful!
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