Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
11:14 AM, Sunday September 26th 2021
The homework is presented as a single PDF file which is uploaded on Dropbox
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7:23 PM, Sunday September 26th 2021
Hi, congrats on finishing lesson 1.
Looking at your superimposed lines, you've made a good effort, but I can see you are having trouble with the longer lines. I would suggest working your way up and trying to get down shorter lines before trying really long ones. Your ghosted lines are a bit curved, but keep practising drawing from your shoulder and you should improve.
Your ellipses look good, just remember that on the funnels exercise, make sure that the centerline cuts the ellipses in half.
On your rough perspective boxes, some you seem to have gone over some lines multiple times, however the organic perspective does not have this problem. This suggests that you figured it out, but I'll mention it anyway; do not redo your lines, just draw them confidently once and move on even if you made a mistake.
Overall good work, keep practicing through warmups and move on to 250 boxes.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
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