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10:27 AM, Tuesday July 19th 2022
Hi!
I saw you did not recieve any feedback yet and that you posted this a long time ago. I hope I can help you a bit.
I don’t know how long you took for each exercise but some of these can take some time to concentrate and to focus on the ghosting technique. Try to focus from the very beginning even when it is drawing the table for the excersice. It will put you in the right mindset.
When drawing ellipses really try to ghost the form before putting your pen down. You are best to take your time with that. Try to add some variation in the ellipses.
The boxes seem to be going verry difficult. Inwould reccomend reading through the whole section again. perspective is not easy to take in so a second or even third reading/watching is always helpfull. Take your time for the plotted perspective. The vertical lines should be perpendicular with the horizontal lines and you are using a ruler so make sure the lines are on the vanishing point.
I think you misunderstood the rough perspective excersize. Read the excersice again before trying it. You need the boxes to be in one point perspective and to go to the vanishing point you put on the horizon. When you have the boxes take a ruler and see if they are near or on the vanishing point. At the moment you have a page with boxes on that are not going to the vanishing point and you have not extended the depth lines to see where they are going.
The rotated boxes have the same issues as the rough perspective excersize. The perspective is incorrect so they don’t rotate around the center box.
The organic boxes excersice also seems like a struggle. You really tried your best making them bigger and smaller but the boxes seem to have shifted to pyramids.
I hope the feedback was helpfull. Don’t get discouraged for the boxes. Sometimes you need to do a thing a few times to understand it.
Next Steps:
For revision you should try the funnel excersize again and try to add more funels and try shifting the degree of the ellips. I would reccomend doing all the excercises for the boxes again. Try reading the perspective explanation let it sink in and read it again the next day before doing the excersizes. Try to work clean when using a ruler so you see what you have done. Read/watch each excersize before making them again.
Good luck to you!
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