Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:23 PM, Wednesday November 2nd 2022

Lesson 1 of mintysmores' Drawabox Homeworks - Album on Imgur

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The rough perspective ones won't upload on imgur, so I posted them on another image hosting site instead. Hope it's not too confusing!

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2:18 PM, Wednesday November 2nd 2022

These are good, there's only really a few things to pick out

1) The lines are mostly good, but some of them have a slight curve to them, this could be because you are having difficulty using the shoulder, a lack of ghosting enough or that you are trying to rectify your lines mid motion so that they hit both plotted points. Whatever it is remember that a smooth straight line comes before anything.

2) In the funnels exercise some of the minor axises are way off the midline the ellipse. Keep in mind that a minor axis is also a line of symmetry.

3) Boxes have a very similar problem to the lines and rotated boxes all seem to converge to the same vanishing point, instead of sliding further along.

Other than that it's all fine and don't worry it'll all come naturally with time

Next Steps:

The next step is the 250 box challenge, which will help you develop what's been said here. Good luck!

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6:24 AM, Thursday November 3rd 2022
edited at 6:27 AM, Nov 3rd 2022

OH MY GOD I DIDN'T EXPECT TO EARN A REVIEW UNDER 24 HOURS POSTING THIS AHAHAHAHHAHA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!

I admit the rotated boxes did give me a hard time (especially round finishing the exercise), plus the repeated curved lines are something i'm not proud of (i think i'm trying to be accurate there but I love how the course tells us it's natural to make these mistakes otherwise I'd feel self-conscious af huehue

Again, thank you so much!! Eager to improve next time, hope you have a nice day~

edited at 6:27 AM, Nov 3rd 2022
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