Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:06 AM, Sunday December 18th 2022
i now this is basic stuff but some help would be apreciated
Lines:
1) In both ghosted lines and ghosted planes, your lines sometimes have a bit of curvarture to them. This could be because you are struggling with using your shoulder to draw. Another reason could be that you're concerned about accuracy, in which case make sure to prioritize a clear smooth mark. That said as the majority of your lines are good, I think you will not have much trouble developing these skills.
2) For some edges in planes and some in the ghosted lines, your lines are missing both points. Be sure to rest your pencil on the starting point for a second before you draw your line (provided that you have throroughly ghosted).
Ellipses:
1) Main thing I can notice is that you don't seem to be that confident in your ellipses. Take as long as you need to ghost so that you don't try to compensate for any inaccuracies in your second mark through. As stated above, prioritize confident, smooth marks.
2) In ghosted planes and in your table, the ellipses either undershoot or overshoot the bounds by a wide margin. Try drawing tighter ellipses and putting more forethought into the ellipse. Also the ellipses in your table overlap quite often when ideally they would only form tangents to each other, just touching. As mentioned before, tighter ellipses, more ghosting and forethought would probably help.
3) In funnels, the minor axis is supposed to cut through each ellipse into 2 symmetrical halves. Just keep this in mind when drawing not just the ellipses but also the funnel.
Boxes:
1) In rough perspective, your lines seem to have struggled a bit more, but this ok just try to ghost more. However some of the horizontal lines on the front facing plane of the boxes aren't parallel with the horizon line. Just try to rectify this in future attempts.
Other than that, it's all fine and up to standard
Next Steps:
Now it's time to move onto the 250 box challenge. This will help in any problems you have with lines or boxes. Only suggestion is to do some ellipses exercises in any warm ups you do. Good luck and have fun!
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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