Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:26 AM, Wednesday June 9th 2021

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In Rough Perspective by mistake i drew the face of the boxes using rulers. Although rest of the part of the box is done by hand.

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5:17 AM, Thursday June 10th 2021

Hey Heiwa!

Your lines are very confident, well done.

Make sure your ellipses are always touching the edge of the table and/or another ellipse. Same for the funnels exercise, make sure your ellipses are snug next to each other and touching.

Your ghosted planes exercise and ellipses inside of them should take up more of the page, really pack them in there as in the example homework.

A few of your ellipses only have 1 pass done, please remember to go over your ellipses at least 2 times and at most 3 times.

Your ellipses are quite wobbly, remember to keep up your confident line quality while making them and ignore accuracy as much as you seem to be doing. Focus on getting a nice ellipse before you try and get them to touch all the edges inside of the ghosted planes, some of them stretch out to touch the edge which you should avoid.

Remember that in rough perspective all horizontal lines should be parrallel to the horizon line, a few of yours were slanted.

In the rotated boxes exercise your second set of boxes follow to a similar vanishing point as your third set of boxes, this means that you rotate your boxes once but not a second time. Remember to rotate them even further as your get further away from the center box. Often those boxes near the edge will have very little face showing.

Nice confident lines in the organic perspective. Overall I think you did well but I will ask for some revisions before giving a completion. I recommend that you redo one page of the tables of ellipses exercise where you aim to have your ellipses touching the sides of the table and the other ellipses as shown in the example homework. You want to jam pack that table completely full with ellipses. I'd also like to see a few ellipses inside ghosted planes with a fuller page and the advice for confident ellipses that I gave implemented.

Next Steps:

1 page of table of ellipses

1 page of ellipses inside ghosted planes

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
11:46 AM, Saturday June 12th 2021

Hello snaps,

Firstly thank you for your feedback on my homework.

Here's my revision and i've tried to fit more elipses and tried to be more confident in my lines.

Maybe this is in right direction?

Here's the link for revision: revision

Thank you

4:51 PM, Sunday June 13th 2021

Perfect! It seems you understood the criticism, you should move on now. Awesome job, keep up the hardwork.

Next Steps:

Move on to the 250 box challenge.

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5:55 PM, Sunday June 13th 2021

Thanks a ton.

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