Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

10:43 AM, Saturday January 1st 2022

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Sorry I'm quite new to this and I just realized I gave the incorrect link to my homework on my previous post. I don't know how to delete a post here on drawabox so I figured I'd just make a new one. Again sorry. Please look through my homework and give me critiques! Thank you.

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1:50 AM, Sunday January 2nd 2022

I saw the first post and replied but congrats on finishing lesson one, The pages are kind of hard to see the lines properly and the images are blurry.

Lines

Superimposed lines look confident, so do the ghosted lines. As well as most of the ghosted planes lines. Keep on ghosting and confidently drawing them.

Ellipses

Ellipses look confident, The ghosted ellipses look good and so do the table of ellipses exercise pages. The ellipses in the table of ellipses exercise overlap a lot. Ghost the ellipse where you want to place it until confident with the motion and then draw it in. From the second table it looks like you are doing this. Keep at it. In the funnels exercise I see one funnel where there are gaps between ellipses , ellipses shoudl touch but not overlap. Also some that are angled a but so they are not cut by the minor axis but overall good exercise execution.

Boxes

Plotted perspective looks solid, consider adding lineweight where boxes overlap, I can't really see if you did or not.

Rough perspective looks good, keep in mind that in rough perspective the vertical lines of the boxes are perpendicular to the horizon and the horizontal lines are parallel to the horizon.

For rotated boxes.

I will say look at the video lesso again, copy it line for like.

The left and right centers should be like the bottom and top, rotate the page if you have to when drawing.

https://imgur.com/a/pZK8bVg

Organic perspective looks good, adding line-weight where boxes overlap helps here too.

Revision

1 page rotated boxes (copy the video )

1 page rotated boxes on your own (use edges as references for other edges orientation, make boxes rotate)

Good luck :) seems like a lot but you got this

Next Steps:

1 page rotated boxes (copy the video )

1 page rotated boxes on your own

So 2 pages rotated boxes , one copying the video and site and the other on your own.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:24 AM, Sunday March 27th 2022

Ahaha I stopped drawing for a while because of personal issues but thanks for the critique!

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