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7:24 PM, Monday November 2nd 2020
Hello there, hope you're doing well. It is critique time :)
Let's start off with super imposed lines where i see that you fray on one side or barely fray at all with only some wobble with the very long ones.
What i currently see is arching lines though. be sure you use your shoulder to the fullest extend. And if you already do that then it might be because you automatically arch towards that. If that's the case, then go into the opposite direction consciously. That should do the trick.
Going to ghosted lines i see the same thing with arching lines. If you want a confident straight line, keep on ghosting with what i mentioned above. It may take some time to get comfortable with using your shoulder or going into the opposite direction to get them straight.
With ghosted planes i still see some arching lines but! There is improvement here. These are looking less arching on the vast majority of them.
Moving onto ellipses and starting with tables of ellipses. With the wider ellipses you seem to slightly go into other ellipses while the thinner ones are nice and snuggly in bound. I think here it's just a case of using it as warm-up and slowly you will get more accurate with them.
Make sure you ghost confidently and go through it 2 or 3 times. Mentioning this as some see to be only drawn once. you want results like this
At tables of ellipses i see that you draw multiple times through it but they go a bit wonky at a few points. Make sure you ghost and touch each side and this goes as smooth as butter. Take your time with ghosting and build up that confidence!
The last part of ellipses, funnels, is really difficult to get just right.
I think what makes them miss the minor axis partially here is that the curves (very hard to get right freehanded) are angled wrong making it not follow the minor axis.
I used the bottom one as example with what i mean.
This is how i do funnels and it makes it easier to get the funnels right. With this way you can clearly see the major and minor axis. The curves are a bit easier to do and once those are done you make an ellipse and for the most part follow the major axis to get the angle right. Once the first ellipse is set you slowly go wider and wider while the ellipses touch each other with mentioned on how to do ellipses earlier. Now follow the minor axis to make sure that it is cut in 2 evenly.
The final part, boxes. You did a solid job job on the plotted perspective itself. I did notice especially with this box that you did a correction line or free handed it? I will talk about that on the rough perspective. Don't to do the back of the box but you did add that on the rough perspective. Speaking of rough perspective.
Rough perspective!
If you mess up, no matter what with those lines. Keep it, don't repeat it (i am still guilty of this myself sometimes. ) Make sure that the width lines are parallel to horizon and height lines and perpendicular to horizon.
Another demon of lesson 1 is rotated boxes. It is very difficult yo rotate them and you did more towards this
If you rotate a box, it's VP changes. So the dramatic side has a short VP and the shallow side a VP that is farther away. It may be hard to follow as it moves pretty quickly. You can see that as it rotates, vp changes
And finally we have arrived at organic perspective. This will be a tip that you will see in the 250 box challenge and that is the Y method. Why a Y? A y has a corner and is 3 point perspective. If you do this method, you first make a line. The second one should be bigger than 90 degrees. If it smaller you might make it inverted. Last part i want to say is lineweight. The only time going over a line again is allowed. Do it confidently and only over parts that overlap to say what goes in front of what.
Organic perspective right now isn't easy but things will click more if you do the box challenge.
To sum things up, you started with arching lines and those slowly but surely went away for the most part. Ellipses part went okay but those could be bumped up a notch and then you other than a few mistakes, did pretty well on the boxes.
Add lesson 1 exercises to your warm-up routine from now on (15 min) and choose 2 to 3 of them to do. Over time you will improve and rock the block!
Next Steps:
You did well, but now you have to face the dreaded 250 box challenge. You have the tools necessary to take it down and stand victorious.
Good luck!
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