Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:55 AM, Thursday July 15th 2021

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10:18 AM, Thursday July 15th 2021
edited at 11:19 AM, Jul 15th 2021

Hello there!

Lets take a look at your submission!

lines

Your superimposed lines look good, besides some minor fraying on both ends on some of these lines, but you seem to already have fixed that on your second page. Luckily, most of your lines look confident, which is most important. I do think you could've filled the page with the ghosted lines a little more, though, but beside that, good job!

elipses

For some of these elipses I think you could've taken a little more time trying to make the elipses fit within their bounds, this is for example decently noticeable in your first page of the tables of elipses. I think this could be prevented by taking a little more time ghosting. However, the most important thing is that they're confident, which they are.

Although not mandatory, the degree change in your funnels seem very subtle in some cases. If you feel making the funnels exercise a little more challenging, you could try to implement a degree change when including this exercise in you warmups. I also notice some more funnels bleeding through the page, just remember that we are only supposed to complete the assigned amount of pages for each exercise. But besides that, these look really decent, so good job!

boxes

You did the plotted perspective as instructed - not much to add here.

On the rough perspective, some lines wobble/arc a bit, so keep in mind to always prioritize confidence over accuracy, but luckily these are few and far between. Also remember that, in this exerecise, horizontal lines should be parallel with the horizon and vertical lines should be perpendicular to it. You already show a good understanding of this, but in some cases it tends to be a little off.

Although I do wish you'd spend a little more time hatching, the rotated boxes look incredible. Good job!

The organic perspective looks incredible too, well done!

Ill mark this lesson as complete, you show a verey decent understanding of this lesson and I think you are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge. Don't forget to include these exercises in your warmups. Good luck!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge.

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edited at 11:19 AM, Jul 15th 2021
1 users agree
3:05 AM, Thursday July 15th 2021

Your line excercise look really nice, there is flow and cleanliness. Your 2 point perspective is also very accurate, but it looks like you struggled a little bit with one point perspective. It looks to me like your 2 point perspective was made with a ruler and 1 point perspective was made freehand because the perspective is really off and the lines are wobbly. Good job overall. I have not gotten to the other lessons but I hope this feedback helps.

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