Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
4:57 AM, Monday October 5th 2020
Complete beginner. Thanks in advance for any feedback :)
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10:57 AM, Monday October 5th 2020
Hello Jashooa here's my critique:
Superimposed lines and ghosted lines look good to me, the only thing I would suggest is to draw some ghosted lines a bit longer, ( I used to draw shortish ghosted lines too and had some difficulties with longer lines in general, so while it could not be your problem try to vary your lines length just to see if you have a harder time with long ones.)
Ellipses in planes and table of ellipses look kinda fine, although it seems to me that you are trying to be more precise than trying to have a good flow, Sometimes ghosting too much proved to me to be a bit detrimental in achieving a good flow, I don't know if that is your case too, anyhow try to balance that as best as you can.
Funnels look good!
Plotted perspective is also well done!
rough perspective is more difficult, and I think it can only be bettered just by practice but your extension lines or boxes in general don't look bad to me
rotated boxes is also good, if you'll ever practice it a bit more try to rotate the boxes a bit more, but i'd say this looks good, it is a difficult exercise after all!
Can't really say anything about organic perspective other than that it looks good.
I'd say you should move to the 250 boxes challenge.
Next Steps:
Move to the 250 boxes challenge, however if I were you I'd try to achieve a better flow in your ellipses, this however can be done with warm up sessions before drawing the boxes so don't grind them without moving forward with the 250 boxes challenge, otherwise you'll only stagnate on lesson 1.
About the challenge ahead of you... it takes time, a lot of time actually so take it easy, i'd say 5 to 10 boxes a day is enough, sometimes i found 10 boxes a day to be also too much tiring to draw, but any number between 5 and 10 is more than good Imho.
Good luck!
3:58 AM, Wednesday October 7th 2020
Thank you very much for the critique.
I did notice I had the most trouble with ellipses, I've made them the bulk of my warm-up along with some ghosted planes.
Will now move onto the 250 boxes, thanks :)
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