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1:22 AM, Thursday April 29th 2021
rishi52,
it looks like you did well ghosting your lines through until rough perspective assignment where the line quality dips; i also see this in your organic perspective assignment. really slow down a bit and take care of those lines as you did in earlier assignments.
your organic perspective needs more of those "y" method of creating boxes that he talks about. slow down on those and give them the care they need. i think you composed the panels and flows for that assignment well though.
your rotated boxes assignment suffers from that first mistake he lists, where you are not really rotating the boxes. the angles need to gradually get more dramatic as we move away from the center but your 2 side boxes on all sides of the middle box look like they go towards the same vanishing points. they even look like they bulge out in the most outer boxes so it isnt a sphere but more of a bulgey wavey object. pay more attention to the internal sphere we make by drawing through the boxes here. he doesnt say not to measure to help the symmetry and cleanliness, so measure is my suggestion, you can measure without using the ticks on a ruler, you can rough it out by using your pen and your finger. you didnt put boxes at the ends of all the axes for reference as he said to and your axes arent made with pen, follow his instructions closely, "Next, to provide us with some sort of visual reference as to the full range of rotation we want to fill, go ahead and place similar squares on the far ends of both axes. These are just going to serve as a reminder, but they represent boxes that have been rotated a full 90 degrees relative to the center." also add some hatching to enhance readability.
i think your ghosted lines and planes and ellipses look pretty good (you hit your dots well, good aim and coordination), carry that level of care into every assignment. why are there 4 pages of ellipses? he asks for 2. looks like you dont extend the line back on all your boxes for the rough perspective assignment. try to take photos with the camera perfectly parallel to the paper or if you can scan them in. your funnels looks good but exaggerate the curves on the outsides a bit more to get a greater scale difference within the funnel. keep pishing yourself to achieve nice smooth ellipses, you do a good job just sticking to 2 or so circles to create the ellipse stroke.
keep going!
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2:34 AM, Friday April 30th 2021
Thanks for reviewing my exercise.
should i revise organic prespective and rotated box exercise?
7:11 PM, Friday April 30th 2021
It's up to you--- if you think you understand the concept, I would just move forward. It seems like most of these lessons compound on each other-- this means you will have more chances to improve on the things going on in the organic and rotated box exercises in later lessons that build on them. If I were you, I would go forward. At some point in your studies maybe after lesson 3, take a perspective course--- I recommend the resources you can find on radiorunner's solo artist curriculum. The first perspective courses he lists are Marshall Vandruff's intro to perspective, "Perspective made easy" by Ernest Norling, "Fundamentals of Perspective" by Gary Myers and many more. Don't just take those resources passively, apply what you're learning from those courses in something you make or make up assignments for yourself after reading them if assignments are not included. There are so many resources, so much to learn, drawabox is just a bunch of exercises, so I guess I am inclined to urge you to keep a forward momentum. That's how I am taking it for my own learning.
Regards.
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1:58 AM, Saturday May 1st 2021
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