Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:15 PM, Friday May 1st 2020

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The rotated boxes one was tough... Anyway, feedback welcome!

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12:32 PM, Friday May 1st 2020
edited at 12:33 PM, May 1st 2020

Lines are p confident in general, though they get a bit wobbly at ghosted planes.

In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.

A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.

If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:

Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit.

Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points.

Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.

As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.

You also aren't drawing starting and ending dots on each line you draw. On the ghosted planes for example, there are some lines where you didn't place it. Be careful with that, as it's pretty important to apply the ghosting method.

Ellipses are p confident in general, with a bit of wobble at times. Remember to focus on confidence over accuracy always here as well.

You've also not drawn through 2 times through some of the ellipses on the funnels exercise. Careful with it.

Boxes look p good in general but they have issues:

-You aren't drawing through the boxes on the rough perspective exercise. You should draw the non viewable parts of the boxes as well.

-You're repeating some lines that were incorrect. Never do it, no matter how off the lines were.

-On rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.

-You've also not kept corners between boxes close on this exercise, don't forget to do it.

-Don't forget to draw through your boxes on organic perspective too. You should be able to see the boxes, even if they're covered by other boxes. You can add lineweight to clarify their relationship on the line overlaps after.

-I recommend trying more overlaps on organic perspective as well. You can clarify after the overlaps by adding a confident, drawn with the shoulder superimposed line on the part of the silhouette of the boxes that overlap. Perspective on them has issues but you'll work on it on the box challenge, so don't worry about it!

Next Steps:

Keep up the good work and move on to the box challenge, good luck!

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edited at 12:33 PM, May 1st 2020
12:51 PM, Friday May 1st 2020

Thanks for the detailed critique, I really appreciate it!

1:36 PM, Friday May 1st 2020

no worries! I'm glad to help!

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