Thanks the example sheet ^_^.
It was very clear. Indeed a picture values 1000 words. What scratching means is in fact broken contour/art line.
I've made a new official submission today.
https://imgur.com/gallery/otfCozZ
Thanks to your remarks, the ellipses and the funnel won't be such as problem as they were last month. I didn't manage to fully get rid of the scratching but I know that I have to be careful about it, so that's a step in the good direction.
Hello again
I'm preparing the 250 boxes challenge. I've noticed that you too were preparing for it.
By looking up to the work of another student, wifu4lifu, I noticed that he just like you, https://imgur.com/gallery/HlDdtu6 were drawing red line along the boxes.
What are those lines for? Perspective lines?
Could you please help me to check if I understood the instruction of the
exercice correctly?
1- Draw a boxes with all faces using the ghosting method. (No ruler allowed?)
2- The box can be in 1 point, 2 points or even 3 points perspective.
3- Each box has to have a number near for counting (Are we allowed to write 250 box challenge page 1 on a corner of the box to help us get all pages together before submission.
4- Just like the rough perspective, use a pen of a different color to check if you're correct
I also have another question regarding the execution of the exercice.
The box or page is very likely to have a horizon line and VP outside the drawing page. Can we stick another page and draw the horizon line and the vanishing points for precise checking?
Indeed only the page in which a box is drawn is to be submitted.
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Sorry for replying somewhat late, been away from the site a bit! Do feel free to give me an @ over Discord and I'll get back asap.
1- Yes. Ghosting and no ruler aid, except for checking the convergences once you've drawn the boxes. The challenge suggests using the Y method, where you draw the vertex nearest to the viewer and the three edges that represent each axis and point towards their respectives vanishing points. If you come up with a different method of drawing boxes, feel free to try it.
2- Yes, though ideally, you'll want to make them all with 3 points perspective.
3- While not required, it is a good thing to do, as it helps you track your boxes and a future reviewer to call out any details on specific boxes.
4- Yes, but only after you've drawn all boxes in a page. How many you draw per page is up to you, but 4 to 6 is ideal, as it should leave enough room to check all three convergences.
For that extra question, there's no need to add another page in case the convergence is off the paper. In fact, you don't need to extend the lines until they converge even within the paper, as in some cases they might get too long.
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Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
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