Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:36 PM, Friday July 31st 2020
Here's my lesson 1. Any help on the perspectives and rotated boxes would be helpful. Thanks!!
Edit: I misread a thing so I deleted a part of this critique, hope this one can still be useful, at least a bit.
Anyway it seems to me that you should try to ghost your ellipses more, particularly in the Ellipses on planes part of the lesson, however you did well in trying to touch every side of the planes.
In the Table of ellipses part your ellipses are better and more fluid, perhaps you ghosted them more?
The rough perspective part seems fine to me ( I mean obviously some lines don't reach the vanishing point, but i think you did a pretty good job in general, can't really think of a way you could improve other than drawing more boxes and rough perspectives)
other than these things nothing else comes to my mind or at least I'm not in the position to give more accurate critiques, but all in all I'd say you are doing well, maybe just practice a bit more your ellipses.
Try to ghost more on eclipse and planes eclipse, don't rush keep steady pace, else keep it up
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