Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
6:23 AM, Thursday June 18th 2020
All feedback appreciated - thanks in advance!
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2:15 PM, Saturday June 20th 2020
Good lines overall. Your superimposed lines are ok. Most of your ghosted lines are decently straight and I noticed an improvement in them in Ghosted planes. Nice work.
Your ellipses are a bit distorted, but that's okay, it will become better with practice, the most important part, keeping them aligned with the minor axis, you managed to do decently well.
Now in the perspective section, you made some error of interpretation here... you drew the exercises in the entire page, instead of making a window to draw them in. My thing with it is completion. If you make 3 windows on one page to do these exercises you will have 3 trials, but you did it only once, so I will have to ask some revision there. But your rotated boxes look good. nice work there.
Next Steps:
1 page of plotted perspective
1 page of rough perspective
1 page of organic perspective
Read the instructions carefully before doing each and pay attention to the example homework at the end of each exercise's page.
8:51 PM, Saturday June 20th 2020
Thanks for the feedback dude.
Not sure how i managed to miss the part about the windows, but hopefully these should be better: https://imgur.com/a/mHggc4c
The organic perspective is still pretty weak but i guess that'll improve with mileage.
10:40 PM, Saturday June 20th 2020
Nice, here is my view on the exercises now:
You redid some lines in organic perspective, try to avoid it, make sure you take your time before making each mark and if you fail, don't try to fix it. Confidence above accuracy.
Rough perspective is better, just make sure the width lines are parallel to the horizon line and the height is perpendicular to the horizon.
Plotted perspective is nice but try to make the line till the point, don't finish them in the middle.
Practice that in your warmups, but give some attention to practicing your lines using ghosted planes.
Have fun with the box challenge :)
Next Steps:
proceed to the box challenge.
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