Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:31 PM, Thursday April 21st 2022
Brief context on my experience for those who desire to critique me. I did an unofficial run of lesson one about 3 months ago and after doing the 250 box challenge I decided I wanted to go through the official critiques, but I was not quite in the mood to start over at that particular moment so I sought other education for a bit. Now I'm back and am looking forward to my time with this course over the coming months.
No need to read on here but I will give my brief thoughts about each assignment
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Super Imposed Lines - My pace with these was a little too slow with these. This resulted in more course-correcting than I thought was appropriate for this exercise. I'll have to think about how I'm going to approach my pacing with future course work.
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Ghosted Lines - Overall My trajectories were fine, but my lines stopped short many times and I think I might just have to start forcing myself to overshoot so at least the lines are connecting
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Tables of Ellipses - I should have included more variation in the tables to challenge myself a bit more, but well, it's not a big deal.
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Ellipses in Planes - I've already practiced ellipses for quite some time but I still definitely struggle with maintaining accuracy to the plane, as all do for quite some time I imagine.
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Funnels - Making the funnel outlines was pretty annoying to do because of how unreasonably time-consuming for me it was, no idea why it was though.
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Plotted Perspective - I've plotted a lot of scenes in perspective in the past so I know you need to take your time with these to get them right.
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Rough Perspective- To me, this is the hardest exercise. Free-handing lines parallel to the picture plane is crazy hard, not to mention having to also draw through the boxes.
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Rotated Boxes- I accidentally made my initial box way too small and just had to roll with it making this a bit harder than necessary, but overall I think it turned out okay in the end.
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Organic Perspective - I did a lot more than necessary on this one. I hope I'm not berated too badly for this. I just enjoy these kinds of exercises a lot and I kinda just got sucked into it.