Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
11:27 PM, Wednesday June 1st 2022
Here is my work for lesson 1, completed over the past few months.
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2:53 AM, Friday June 3rd 2022
Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a good job of lining your pen up with the starting point and keeping these confident. Your ghosted lines and planes are continue this trend of confident mark-making and whilst you're overshooting a little at this point, I do note it improves markedly later in your submission.
Ellipses
Next, your tables of ellipses are showing the same level of confidence as your previous line exercises (especially the second page) and it's good to see that you're drawing through them the requisite 2-3 times. The trend continues through your ellipses in planes where you're doing a good job hitting the four sides of the plane with your ellipse while maintaining a confident mark. Finally, your funnels are really well done - all of your ellipses, no matter the size are confident and they're all pretty well aligned to the minor axis. Overall really nice work in this section.
Boxes
Your rough perspective exercise is looking pretty good - you've done a pretty good job keeping the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line and you've correctly applied the error checking method. Your line confidence did falter a little here, which is pretty normal - just make sure you're giving each and every line of the box the amount of time and attention as it deserves. You've given the rotated boxes a good go - you're getting a fair amount of rotation out of the boxes, particularly in the bottom half. The gaps are nice and tight in places but does loosen off as you get further from the centre, so make sure you're keeping them nice and close together because it gives you some really good clues about where to place the next box. I also wanted to comment on your hatching because this is really neatly done and it's clear you've considered your lines before putting them down - exactly what we like to see here. Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise - you could stand to push the variation in size a little further between the smallest and largest boxes however it's certainly still creating a good sense of depth at the scale you've chosen. The boxes themselves are diverging a little in places however this exercise is simply an introduction to the concepts you'll explore in depth in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
11:46 AM, Saturday June 4th 2022
thank you so much for the critique!
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