Sorry about the poor smartphone camera quality. I tried playing around with the the exposure and flash, these were the best results. I do have a scanner, but it uses a clamshell design and the pages were too big to fit. I hope you can see what you need to see.
you did a great job. you didnt really understand the concept for the rotated box exercise and just rushed through it. I had the same problem, i solved it by directly drawing from the video this helped me understand the concept and i did it later without looking. Give it a try that way
Besides the rotated boxes you
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work on the rotated boxes without it you will have a hard time doing the 250boxes challenge
Congrats on finishing lesson 1!
Your superimposed lines have a few wobbles but are mostly smooth. In these exercises, confidence always matters more than accuracy so don't worry too much about perfectly overlapping your superimposed lines. A few lines also have fraying on both ends. Remember, you should be making confident lines but not unplanned ones. Take the time to position your pen right where the line begins before shooting for the other end.
The same things apply to ghosted lines and planes. They should always be confident, even if they aren't accurate and they should start at one point and go off to the other. I notice your lines in these exercises at much more confident and seem to be better at starting at one point.
Your ellipses in general tend to wobble. Confidence again matters more than accuracy, which in this case refers to how snugly they fit within a table, plane or funnel. In your ellipses in planes I can see a few instances where you sacrificed the confidence of an ellipse in order to make it fit better. In your funnels exercise, your minor axis is often slanted, leading to the ellipses being misaligned. Make sure to align your ellipses so the minor axis goes through the middle of every ellipse in the funnel (and remember, you can use a straight edge to draw the minor axis and a rounded edge for the curves, so you should make sure you aren't drawing a funnel which will lead to all your ellipses having a wrong alignment). Also remember to increase the degree of your ellipses as they move away from the middle.
On your plotted perspective exercise, remember all your boxes should be in 2 point perspective.
Your rough perspective exercise is well done, but make sure the lines representing the width of your boxes are parallel to the horizon line, and the lines representing the height are perpendicular to the horizon. It might be a result of freehanding these but there are a few width and height lines that are not at the correct angles to each other.
Your rotated boxes aren't close enough together. They should all be really close together so you can use the edges of the boxes you've already drawn to estimate where the undrawn boxes should be. The boxes also aren't rotating back into space. I notice you've changed the dimensions of each one, but that is not enough to convey how the rotation of the boxes. Remember to think of how the vanishing point crawls along the horizon, on the opposite side of the center as the boxes are.
Your organic perspective is well done. There are many convergence errors but those will be ironed out with practice.
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Well done! Before moving on I will request:
1 page of funnels. Remember to keep your ellipses aligned to the minor axis, and to keep them confident as well.
1 page of rotated boxes. The exercise is meant to be very hard but I don't think you grasped the concept.
I suggest re-reading the exercise pages and watching the videos for these exercises before attempting them again.
Here ya go. I tried more to align the elipses to the minor axis, though, it's tilted on at least one of them, and quite a few of the funnels suffer from unequal space between the curves. I also utilized the parallel lines in the boxes exercise a little more this time. I don't think I did a good enough job to get all the lines to converge towards their respective points, though.
Remember, when making your funnels, the division line should be right in the center and the ellipse made over the division line should be the thinnest ellipse in the funnel (have a lower degree) and all the other ellipses, as they increase in distance from the center, should gradually become wider until they become widest at the ends of the funnel. Changing the degrees of your ellipses is optional, but I believe you might have been trying to do that in a few of your funnels and there are a few cases where that rule isn't followed. Aside from that, remember not to draw an ellipse with more than 3 passes.
Your rotated boxes have improved quite a bit, though as you mentioned they don't accurately converge to their vanishing points, which makes them look quite flat.
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Keep doing these exercises in your warm ups and move on to the 250 box challenge! I don't think it's worth re-doing the rotated boxes again, as your ability to visualize how a box rotates will improve a lot in the box challenge.
This is a remarkable little pen. Technically speaking, any brush pen of reasonable quality will do, but I'm especially fond of this one. It's incredibly difficult to draw with (especially at first) due to how much your stroke varies based on how much pressure you apply, and how you use it - but at the same time despite this frustration, it's also incredibly fun.
Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.
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