Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:20 PM, Monday August 3rd 2020
Any critique of my work will help :) Thank you guys!
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12:56 AM, Tuesday August 4th 2020
Really Great work!
I could see one or two line fraying on both ends on the "superimposed lines" exercise, but not enough to be bothered about, and you quickly got it right.
Most of the ellipses are very well done, with some more extreme ellipses on planes not meeting every side, but they are close enough and very fluid and smooth lines.
On the plotted perspective, you didn't through every box, mainly on your second sheet. It does look prettier this way, but the idea is to draw every edge of the box.
Your rough perspective line are a bit wobbly, but I just think you needed to get more used to commiting to the boxes, because your following box exercises are way better.
The rotated boxes feel a little bit less rotated on the corners, The example looks like a sphere, but yours got a bit square. The corners are very extreme rotations, so they feel odd, but try to draw them in those extremes either way, so you get used to them. It's a great idea for your 250 boxes, to try some extreme Ys.
Overall you did pretty good and clearly evolved throughout the exercises.
Good job!
Next Steps:
Try the 250 boxes and force yourself to draw more extreme rotations of the boxes, like the ones in the corners of the "Rotated Boxes" exercises.
Remember to draw through every box so you get a better understanding of the weird positions it can get in the 3D space
1:26 AM, Tuesday August 4th 2020
Thank you for the critique...I might have accidentally pressed the button at the top "mark as unhelpful and return to the queue" thinking it said "mark as helpful...", so sorry if you got a notification for that, seems like I undid it.
Thanks for bringing up all those points, I'll definitely work on drawing through boxes, ghosting well enough to make the right proportional line and shape, and try to understand the angle and rotation of my cubes :)
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