Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:15 PM, Thursday June 3rd 2021
Hello!
I´m not sure if we are supposed to add some of our thoughts about the exercise or to what extend, but I wanted to share some words about the stuff that came to mind during the lesson. It might be useful for other students who think of starting and I want to practice my english.
Also I think i should mention that i had already done lesson 1 a few months ago, but never ended up submitting it.
For the superimposed and ghosted lines i don´t really know what to say other than I think I could´ve done better. That´s also the major "theme" I had throughout this Lesson. "I think I could´ve done better". But I guess that´s the point and it will accompany me during all the other ones. Same goes for the ghosted Planes.
With the table of ellipses and ellipses in planes I noticed that I´d often forget to properly ghost the ellipse, and just draw it. And even though I noticed it, I kept doing it. That´s something that would happen again during the rotated boxes exercise. I feel like I should´ve tried harder here.
The funnel exercise was quite fun. In the beginning I had problems trying to understand the way the minor axis behaves if we move the ellipse and how it translates to paper, but I got the hang of it eventually. Still, I often didn´t manage to keep the ellipse within the funnel and often didn´t manage to align the ellipses to the minor axis as i wanted to.
I don´t really have anything to say about the plotted perspective exercise. It was interesting but nothing new.
The rough perspetive exercise on the other hand was quite suprising. It honestly shocked me how many lines I completely missed even though I was certain they were correct. Quite the "eye-opener".
Now for the hardest one. The rotated boxes exercise. Thinking about how boxes rotate in space was very challenging but also very fun. Like I already mentioned above, I often forgot to properly ghost line in this one. This let to a lot of bad looking boxes. My pen running out of ink most likely didn´t help either...
Now for the organic perspective exercise. I feel like I messed up a lot of the vanishing line here. And for some reason I started to undershoot my lines here. I don´t really know why I was undershooting them, but I think I was going to fast.
In the end all I can say is that I think i could´ve done better. It was quite fun though.
All criticism is appreciated!!
Rbn