Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:27 AM, Sunday September 20th 2020
I feel like i could of did a bit better on the Rotated boxes and Organic perspective...those were tough!
Hello, I'll take a look at your assignment. The superimposed lines are good. I recomend taking a little more time lining up your initial points. The strokes are a little shaky but that's likely the result of drawing from the shoulder for the first time. For the ghosted lines, I recommend drawing a few longer strokes in the future to help practice. Overall they look good though. Likewise the planes are good.
Moving onto the ellipses, the confidence that you draw most of them with is good. You also manage to hit a good variety of shapes. However, many of your edges overlap with the neighbor which seems to be a deliberate decision in many spots. You should try to hit the edges of each neighbor and edges of the boxes to practice drawing the ellipse. I recommend ghosting them a few times beforehand to get better at that. The funnels are pretty good besides the aforementioned issues.
Finally, the boxes. Your hatched lines in the plotted perspectives are a little rushed at time. If you're going to hatch you should apply the same level of ghosting that you do for other lines. Your rough perspective does a good job of starting to hone in on the VP. It's true that your rotated boxes aren't perfect but this exercise is intentionally hard. I can see that you're making progress on understanding the perspective. Just remember to focus on the edge boxes continuing to curl. Your top right one has the right orientation, it just extends too much. Your organic perspective is not bad. Just take your time a little on the boxes and don't be afraid to aim for larger scales (i.e. bigger boxes in the foreground and even smaller in the background).
I think you did well on this assignment. You should do the 250 box challenge to practice further before hitting Lesson 2.
Thank you so much! Very helpful information...i never thought about ghosting the hatched lines..seems so obvious, i do indeed rush them. I've been practicing these exercises a bit before a drawing session so i've been improving. Thanks again!
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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