Hello Alex, welcome back. Your lines look pretty good for the most part. I do wanna suggest that on superimposed lines you put some more variety in your lines (perhaps add some twists and turns). Also, for ghosted lines try to always start your lines from a point and shoot for another. Your ellipses in planes have one big issue which is that you are drawing through the ellipse too many times. 2-3 times is how many you should be doing. Same with your tables of ellipses and your funnels. For your boxes, you are missing 4 pages total (1 page of rotated boxes, 2 pages of rough perspective, 1 page of plotted perspective). I suggest you review the material before doing those.
yeah sorry it was a mistake, i reuploaded antother with the completed lecture but didnt know how to delete this.
Thank you.
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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