Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:32 PM, Wednesday March 27th 2024
I'm still not really sure how stuff works on here so sorry in advance if this is the wrong place. Throughout doing the exercise I had alot of questions... most of which I promptly forgot but I remember a couple.
In the lessons there was emphasis on thinking before putting lines down on the page, which I can understand but I found that my work came out worse if I over analyzed what I wanted to do. For example I found that when ghosting, 1-3 times is alright, but above that the line ends up worse because I'm too fixated on making it correct. If I don't give myself time to think, I don't give myself time to get anxious about it and mess it up. Is this wrong?
My other question was about the boxes and perspective. I've drawn similar stuff before but never really "knew" about vanishing points and all the other concepts. I drew lines converging because "that part of the box is further away and so its smaller" and never thought of a vanishing point. I'll skip the full explanation but similar to my previous question about over-analyzing I found myself wanting to draw the boxes just off of instinct instead of plotting every corner. I had alot of trouble with the Y method, mostly just out of the angle and length of the initial 3 lines, as it wasn't the way I was used to drawing boxes. However I found the rough perspective exercise relatively easy, as it was similar to how I drew boxes beforehand.
Overall I'm just wondering how much I should trust in what I already "know"? I'm mainly trying this course because I want to properly learn the fundamentals instead of the mishmash of stuff I've got into the habit of doing already lol.