Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:06 PM, Sunday November 8th 2020
Here i am submitting my homework of lesson 1 . Should i move on to next lesson ?
Hey there, hope you're doing well.
It is critique time :)
I'm going to look at them page by page and may repeat some things. i hope that's ok.
Let's dive into it with the super imposed lines first. I noticed that the straight ones have a nice and clear point on where they start but some of the curved ones have fraying on both sides like this one If you're unsure where to start putting a dot where you begin is perfectly fine. If you feel confident in your ability to start on one side you can do without but put your pen on the end of one side and follow your previous line.
Jumping to ghosting lines i see a lot of arching lines. You might be trying to focus on the other end. Right now it's more important to focus on straight lines and confidence and overshooting is completely fine here. Over time you will get more accurate. Keep in ghosting until you are fully confident you make a good line!
Back to the arching lines, you might not be fully using your shoulder or you arch automatically towards one side. In order to fight the shoulder problem; what helped me was resting half of my lower arm more on the paper while my elbow is not touching anything. For the auto arching, going into the opposite direction consciously works to counteract it.
Last piece of the of the line section, ghosted planes seems to have the same issue as ghosted lines. Keep in mind the ghosting until your ready for it.
on your second page though, some of the ones that overshoot a lot, look to be booming with a lot more confidence! So yeah, there is improvement and that great!
Onto ellipses, starting with tables of ellipses. On the first page i see a lot of ellipses going through each other. this has lessened a bit on the second page but still noticeable. For ellipses, you keep ghosting and be sure to touch the top, bottom and side if theres one. no rush needed. you can ghost a bit slow at first and go a bit faster and end with a decent speed not too slow or too fast to make your mark. As long as it's confident. It will get better and tighter over time.
For ellipses in planes on the first page i see a step back with the planes and it bumps back up to pretty decent straights with slight archs. Some of the ellipses don't seem to touch the side and float abit or are a bit wobbly. It is important to keep ghosting and be sure it touches each side and make a confident ellipse. Confidence over smoothness.
Last part of of the ellipses, funnels. When ghosting you can vaguely see the angle it is going to have. Make sure it follows the minor axis and that it is cut in half. For the first ellipse in the middle you can follow the major axis to get it cut in half. Some of them look to be done a bit loosely or don't touch the previous ellipses. For funnels, make sure that each ellipse gets wider as it goes away from the middle. The ones i see here look to be the same width.
Now for the final section, boxes
Plotted perspective looks to be solid. Whenever you hatch something that is in 3d space, keep in mind you do the front/side of the box that is visible and not the ones that are not visible You might make it look confusing for the viewer on where the front of the box is.
With rough perspective, width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to horizon. The horizontal lines, on front plane have the same length. Same goes with vertical lines. Back plane may have shorter lines than the front plane but the back planes lines should have the same length to each other. Your second page is however, an improvement from the first page of rough perspective.
Now, for what i like the call the demon of lesson 1, rotated boxes
First thing i noticed here is that your boxes don't look to be rotating and go more like this When a box rotates, the more dramatic angle has a vp that is closer to it while the more shallow sides vp is more far away from it. This gif shows how it rotates and you can see that the angles change and gets more dramatic when the vp is closer
The boxes also don't seem to have narrow and consistent gaps with too much guessing. when doing the diagonal ones you can follow the lines next to it to see where you should go.
Lastly, the final stretch, organic perspective. They looks alright with getting bigger and line look incredibly straight from what it was at the beginning! But look to be inverted. An easy way to fix it is using the Y method. You first make a line and then do a second one. Be careful however as they it should be bigger than 90 degrees. This will be explained more in detail in the 250 box challenge. For a depth feel, line-weight can be added to the parts that go in front of the other. Line-weight is the only time going over a line is a good thing but do this like you did the first line. And the final thing to end this critique, it is okay to mess up. If you do a line wrong, accept it and go to the next line. Correction lines are not needed if the first one went wrong.
In short, Lines started out with a lot of archs but towards the end have gotten more straight. Ellipses can be worked on and boxes will be improved upon at the 250 box challenge.
I'm pretty confident in saying that you are ready to face the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
You stumbled and struggled in lesson 1 but managed to get back up on your feet in the end. Now! You are ready to move on and face the 250 box challenge.
Good luck!
Thanks for feedback will definitely work on these areas.
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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