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Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines look fantastic too, both the (very ambitious!) ones in the ghosted lines exercise, as well as the ones in the ghosted planes exercise. I’m happy to see that you chose to plot some start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the latter- most students forget.
The table of ellipses exercise looks great. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. For you, specifically, I’d recommend sticking to 2 rotations. See, also, if you can lift your pen off the page at the end of your rotations, rather than flicking it off, so that it doesn’t run off-course. The ellipses in planes exercise looks really good. Your ellipses maintain their roundness, despite the added difficulty of having to touch all 4 sides of the plane. They’re not quite as tight, here, but that’s to be expected. See if upping the ghosting time fixes this, but don’t worry if it doesn’t. The funnels exercise looks really good, too. On top of maintaining their previous qualities, your ellipses are now properly aligned to a minor axis, too, which cuts them into equal, symmetrical halves. Great job on this section.
The plotted perspective exercise looks good, though you are missing a few of the back lines, and there’s a few that are a little skewed, as well. As per the rules of 2 point perspective, that set needs to be at infinity (perpendicular to the horizon) so the more ideal thing would’ve been to estimate a location equidistant from the 2 points on your page- that’s alright, though. The rough perspective exercise looks great. Your linework is confident, and your 3 sets of lines correct (both the parallel/perpendicular lines, and the converging ones.) To push them even further, spend a little longer considering them. Usually, I like to plot a point down where I think it should go, and then ghost it all the way to the horizon, until I’m satisfied that it’s where it should be. Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise! It’s big, and the gaps between the boxes have been kept narrow. The rotation is at times a little slight, but that’s alright, you’ll become more and more comfortable with it in time. Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks fantastic. You’ve got some very interesting compositions here, and, more importantly, the overlaps, consistent increase in size, and shallow foreshortening of your boxes all come together to sell the illusion of their flow. The boxes themselves look quite good, too, so well done in that regard.
Congrats on a fantastic submission. Feel free to move on to the box challenge, and good luck!
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Thank you very much!!
With the plotted perspective, when you say "set" are you refering to the line of the box that we see on the other side?
If so, you were saying to have the line position estimated since its going to be perpendicular to the horizon and parallel to all the other vertical lines?
Just making sure I am understanding this right:)
Yes! Though, specifically, I’m referring to all lines in that set. A box has 3 sets of 4 lines, each heading to their own vanishing point. For this exercise, 2 are clearly defined on the page, and 1 is off of it, at infinity. And all the lines in that set need to be parallel to each other, and perpendicular to the horizon. And so, in the case where there’s a small error, and the start/end points of your back line suggest a line that doesn’t behave in this way, it’s best to compensate for it, by estimating its location. It’ll be parallel to its friends in the set, and perpendicular to the horizon, and, if you’d like to be equally ‘off’ of each point, rather than too close to one, but too far from the other, equidistant from them both. I hope that makes sense.
Thank you!
Yes it is very clear!!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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