didn't quite understand the purpose of the organic perspective task, whether we should of been following the line for a hint of what direction the box should be facing or just rotate it and use the line for more a reference for size, otherwise I was wondering how it differs to just drawing out a bunch of boxes across a page.
Thanks, this took me a few weeks to finish it all.
First, i will answer your concerns:
The line you draw in the organic perspective is to introduce you to the idea of depth in a three-dimensional space. This line guides you to draw boxes smaller or bigger to give the impression that you draw them further away or closer to the viewer. You will use again this concept in lesson 2. This line also helps you drawing them in series and in relatively size from one another.
Another question you made in the lesson is about the guide squares in the rotated boxes. They act as a guide to rotate the box completely to the other face of the box, keep in mind that you start with the one on the middle looking entirely form the front face of the construction, so the guides you draw after acts as reference points to tell you were it should end.
Now, with the analysis:
When looking at your superimposed/ghosted lines, the main thing that jumps the the eye is that the line fails to fit in both dots, this happens when you don´t take your time to position correctly the pen before making the stroke. Be sure to take your time to properly land your pen on the starting point before making the stroke. This applies to every straight line you make in the future. Although your lines prove themselves confident, you tend to curve them a little bit. It´s alright, just a matter of practice, but it reflects in later exercises. I advice you to curve them to the other side, it tends to correct a little bit.
Ghosted planes presents these curved lines again(just a matter of confidence and practice), and usually don´t make it to the other dot, is preferable that it extends from it, don´t be afraid of that.
Good job with the ellipses, but sometimes they overlap a bit, when practicing them, try to take additional time to ghost your strokes and try to not breaking the distance between each other.
I will remark above everything how well you managed to get the boxes exercises, i´d say you are a bit experienced with VP´s and it works in your favor. Well Done!
Conceptual mistakes
Not taking your time to put your pen on the starting dot.
The boxes in Organic perspective doesn´t overlap. You should draw the box under the other above.
Next Steps:
Arm yourself with patience, some music, a good snack and strive the challenge with confidence, be cautious with your strokes and focus on getting those lines smooth and confident. You got this!
late reply but I value the feedback, with the rotated squares lesson, i guess i should of either set the guide squares closer to the center so I could reach them easier or had the most central shape larger to begin with.
The ghosted lines lesson suffered some difficulty maybe more so with my cluttered set up. easiest option may be to use the instructed fineliner and paper but at this point, my tablet does not have built in shortcuts so I have a pretty bulky keyboard as a obstacle of my hand at times.
I tried with starting from different sides of the two points but some would always feel less comfortable. which im sure is overcome with practice. elipses probably suffered from this as well.
Thanks for the valued critique.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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