Before I begin I just want to say I am a complete beginner here myself so please take all my comments with a grain of salt.
Your superimposed lines look very good to me. My only advise would be to continue trying to improve the control so that their isn’t quite so much fraying. Fraying is expected but it feels a bit excessive on the lower part of the page.
Your ghosted lines look great to me, as do your ghosted plains. My suggestions are to move on to improving your control so that the line meets the points better for the ghosted lines, and for the planes in addition to working on control so that the X’s line up better, I think you would benefit by trying to create planes that aren’t so rectangular. Try to make the plane shorter on one side and longer on the other so that it appears to be in perspective and is foreshortening as it moves away from you.
I think you did really good in drawing ellipses on the plane and fields without much distortion. I think here you just need to start working on tightening up your control as I feel you have the basic idea down.
You did spectacularly on the plotted perspective. There is nothing I can think of that you need to work on there.
Now, assuming I understood the instructions correctly myself, on the rough perspective I feel like you didn’t quite understand what they wanted. They were wanting you to freehand the boxes and follow the lines you drew to their actual destination on the eye line. Instead you drew them all going to where you wanted them to go. Yes ideally you want all the lines to point to a singular vanishing point, but when you free hand this almost never happens. We are human and make mistakes and misjudge where are lines are going constantly, and if you look at your drawing you will see many of the lines don’t actually go to their destination. I think you did a good job of constructing the boxes but you need to try again and this time follow the lines to their actual destination. This will allow you to see how far off you are drawing your lines.
I feel you did incredible on the rotated boxes though there are a few lines that are at an angle where they should be more horizontal. On the organic Perspective there are a few boxes where it looks like you didn’t quite think out the perspective quite right. Where lines should converge they appear to converge. Try and watch out for that.
You are doing great (way better than me) and my main issue you didn’t do the rough perspective quite the way you were supposed to do it. My next step for you would be to reread the rough perspective section and try it again.
Overall, a great job! Keep it up!
Next Steps:
Redo the Rough Perspective homework:
Thank-you so much! I don't really know how to interact in an environment like this, so I'll give a rough draft of my plan to follow-up.
Fraying: I need more consistent repetition and control. As of now, I believe that I am rushing it too much, and need to practice drawing confident lines without whipping my hand around.
Ghosted Plains: Make them less rectangular in 2D space by reducing the length of the foreshortened side.
Ghosted Ellipsis: I need mileage and confidence with my ellipsis, instead of just doing them quickly to attempt to get them consistent. Work on fluid arm movement.
Rough Perspective: Thanks! I'll be sure to do it correctly next time.
Rotated Boxes: Probably shouldn't have done them in my lap lol.
Organic Perspective: Need to think about it more three dimensionally instead of relying on guesswork. Perhaps observe the angle with my pen before plotting my ghosting points.
If anything here looks wrong, feedback (given that you have the time) is appreciated.
Thank-you!
Emmet.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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