Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
4:00 PM, Friday May 3rd 2024
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12:09 AM, Sunday May 5th 2024
Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. This confidence continues throughout your ghosted lines and planes and you're even getting a good amount of accuracy out of these - so well done!
Ellipses
Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other. There's a few unhappily shaped ones in the first page but you hit your stride with how to keep them smooth by the second page.
Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane. You remain confident for the most part, though in the first page particularly I can see signs of wanting to sacrifice the smoothness/confidence of your ellipse to hit the goal. This definitely eases a little in the second page where you relax into it a bit more.
Finally, you're getting the ellipses in your funnels pretty well aligned to the minor axis but again, that little bit of desire to be accurate seems to have crept in, compromising your line confidence in places. Remember that as long as you keep executing your lines confidently, accuracy will build with time, so it's often better not to worry about it yet.
Boxes
Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty normal margin of error.
Your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You've actually managed to capture a fair degree of rotation, so well done. Any success at this stage is absolutely a win as this (and the following exercise) are intended as introductions to concepts explored further throughout the course.
Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes as well as the overlapping in the organic perspective exercise is starting to create a sense of depth in each frame. The boxes themselves are diverging a bit in places, however you will be able to work on this in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.
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