Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:48 AM, Sunday January 31st 2021
Finally finished lesson one. Appreciate any feedback.
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7:25 AM, Sunday January 31st 2021
Hello I'll review your lesson one for today.
Starting off with your superimposed lines, it looks good. You're going back to the same point, drawing confident lines, and fraying is natural. Your ghosted lines are looking really straight and confident; not anything to worry about there. There's good accuracy between the points as well! The lines seem to stay pretty accurate and confident with your ghosted planes.
Your Table of Ellipses are doing well making sure to fit within the bounds, as well as getting that circular shape, but try to get into the habit making sure you round them at least two times completely. It was a problem you seemed to have fixed, but I'll mention this anyways. You want to make sure that you're making two full rounds to get maximum correction on the ellipse. Making a round and a third doesn't really show if you perfected the circle or not. For ellipses in planes, ellipses stay within the planes and are having a strong and confident form. Your funnels are done well. They stay symmetrical on both sides of the ellipse, and are confident. They also fit snug within the space.
Plotted perspective has nice understanding vanishing points. You also show nice line weight. You used a good amount of overlap too. In rough perspective you show a strong sense of understanding how you're supposed to trace back to the vanishing points. The rotated boxes are good. You got your full rotation and it seems you understand how boxes move in 3-D space. Except you forgot to do the boxes of the four corners. Your organic perspective has good rotation. There is solid change in your initial Y and change in perspective. You used overlap as well. THe line weight does seem a little scribbly though, and I also see attempts to fix broken lines. In quite a few areas it looks like you are attempting to fix some wobbly or inaccurate lines, and that is a bad habit to get into. It ruins a lot of the reason we use pen. If you make a mistake, commit to it!
Read below for revisions please and Ill mark you as complete!
Next Steps:
All I really ask is you just make an attempt at those 4 corners for the rotated boxes. They're really crucial in understanding 3D space. Even though you seem to have a hang of it, just complete that part of the exercise and shoot me a picture!
11:46 PM, Sunday January 31st 2021
Thank you for the feedback, here is my revised homework.
6:41 PM, Monday February 1st 2021
Awesome, I think youre good for the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Just practice some of the exercises, like ellipses or planes, or anything that targets towards what you need to improve, as warm-ups before every session of doing boxes.
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