Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:37 PM, Monday March 29th 2021

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Sorry about the Orgnaic Perspective Exercise I was rushing to start the 250 box challenge that I slacked off on the fundamentals.

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6:43 AM, Sunday April 4th 2021

Lines: I think you did okay you were starting them from the same point but then you were sometimes a little fast and thats why I think your lines sometimes stretch out further then you wanted. Also the pages are not filled enough. Especially the ghosted lines exercise.

The boxes and ellipses in them look like they were done in a hurry and again the page is not filled enough in my opinion but it not that bad.

Also be careful with drawing ellipses they should be touching their border ellipses and the edges that you made so do that a little slower.

Funnels exercise the same complaint as with drawing ellipses before but the page is filled and thats nice

:)

The boxes, first exercise should be done with ruler and i think yours is not.

The second exercise one point perspective hand drawn boxes are okay you just have to draw extended edges with a ruler and you'll be fine:)

The rotated boxes. The boxes should be drawn fully with all edges visible. Also the corner boxes should be rotated more visibly.

Organic boxes I think you did okay:D

Overall i think you should take a little more time and draw slower and think more before you put your pen on the paper.

Also try to get a paper that is not in a notebook because pages in notebook are a little curved. Just plain A4 paper will do:)

Good luck and have fun!

David_Green_Bean

Next Steps:

Ghosted lines exercise: Fill the page with more lines and do it slowly.

One more page of ellipses in boxes, also do it a little slower.

One more page of ellipses in rows.. draw them so they will touch each other and border edges.

Draw the two point perspective boxes with a ruler.

Finish the one point perspective freehand boxes. (add the extended edges that go back to the horizon)

Draw the rotated boxes exercise once again (all edges visible, boxes in corers very rotated, help yourself with pictures, take them as reference)

And take your time!

bye:)

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:15 PM, Tuesday June 1st 2021
edited at 2:44 AM, Jun 2nd 2021

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edited at 2:44 AM, Jun 2nd 2021
2:44 AM, Wednesday June 2nd 2021

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