Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:29 AM, Thursday September 9th 2021
i would have preferred the photos to be brighter but the lighting in my room isnt particularly good so ill just use these photos
Hi Ruinone! Welcome to DAB, I'll be reviewing your homework today;
On Linework:
Linework is looking really quite good for a beginner. You're hitting all of the main points, so I don't feel much of a need to re-iterate anything in the lesson. You're doing really well here, keep it up.
Ellipses are looking really good too; you're keeping them very tight in your draw-throughs which is impressive.
Really not much to critique here, you're doing great.
On perspective:
On the rough perspective exercise you show the ability to find convergences with a reasonable level of accuracy, though the more advanced exercises pose a little more challenge for you (as expected). All in all though, you do really quite well at these exercises.
One error I notice on your rotated boxes is that some of your boxes don't actually rotate, notably on the outermost ring https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating. I've marked the boxes on which you do that, though you're generally good at avoiding this mistake. https://imgur.com/a/lUUbjME
On the Organic perspective exercise, you're making two mistakes.
First mistake is that you don't always find the right convergences on your boxes. This is a pretty normal mistake, and one you'll invariably solve as you have more practise grappling with perspective. I point it out just for clarity as to what's going on.
The second mistake is that the foreshortening of your boxes (see notes: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7/foreshortening) is not kept consistent, which breaks the illusion of perspective in how the boxes are placed relative to eachother.
Overall, really good work here. You've done well.
Next Steps:
Doing really well so far. Move on to the 250 box challenge now.
See you there!
Thank you!
although i am not actually a complete beginner
ive tried the course before at some point but stopped going at it
and i didnt post my exercises
i decided to retake it and do it more seriously this time
didnt have the old papers so i started from scratch
Some of you may remember James Gurney's breathtaking work in the Dinotopia series. This is easily my favourite book on the topic of colour and light, and comes highly recommended by any artist worth their salt. While it speaks from the perspective of a traditional painter, the information in this book is invaluable for work in any medium.
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