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5:41 AM, Sunday October 3rd 2021
i can only see 2 minor issues with your pages.
first one in the elipses page. your first pages seems like you dont have the line confidence, which improved in your second page, and i would consider it ok, but i would say you should go over each elipse 2 times and not more. if you do it two times it shows you where you corrected your first time, but like this you couldn't tell which line is which.
second one in your organic perspective boxes and rotated boxes. you should understand that in the rotated boxes, the boxes you are drawing are the same, and just rotated in space. on the most outer boxes furthest from the main cross lines your boxes are very thin which indicates no depth, i would suggest looking at something that is box shaped and rotating it in space doing another sheet if you want to improve with this.
on the organic boxes, you should still use the principals taught in the other lessons (of box drawing) you seem to be struggling with boxes without guidelines (which is totally fine) i would recommend doing another page of rough perspective for you to better understand vanishing points, and then do 2 more organic boxes. i would do the same thing you did (with the red lines) with rough perspective boxes -extending their lines to vanishing point with red- on your organic boxes.
Next Steps:
3 point perspective is used in organic boxes, some of your boxes have lines that point to random vanishing points with a lot of error. i think you need to do organic boxes again, with imaginary vanishing points in mind, and ghosting method so your lines align with your imaginary vanishing point better. no worries, you got this!
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4:02 PM, Tuesday October 5th 2021
Hey great job on your homework!
I see you put a lot of effort into this submission, great job on your line confidence this is something that is very challenging for some (especially myself).
I see two areas for improvement.
1st- Your Ellipse tables.
The first page it seems on the top portion of you only drew through the ellipse once.
I would recommend give that ellipse a good ghosting, no shame in ghosting the ellipse 8-10 times to "feel it out" before committing to that stroke. Lastly that second draw through on your ellipse really helps, just comparing the first page to the second page the difference is vast.
2nd- Is your Organic Boxes.
Overall great work here you have a good sense of space going from big to small feel very proud I personally struggled with this a LOT. This is one of the exercises that is meant to be extremely difficult so pat yourself on the back!
Some of the smaller boxes are hard to read, this is something I am battling with myself. Some material I found to help me with understanding the shape in 3d form is the "Y Method". Its touched on here https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/organicperspective
I naturally did not construct my cubes this way so understanding it enough to create the cube I intended was extremely difficult. You will learn more about it when you start on the 250 Box challenge. I think it will help lots, here is some supplemental material I found to help me grasp it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok4TmdssU34
Uncomfortable has the second reply on this post, for some reason it just clicked when I read it.
Next Steps:
I would suggest doing one more page of the Ellipse Table and strive to get two full passes through all your Ellipses before moving on.
Start the 250 Box Challenge. Try to use the Y Method as much as possible, it helps so much to understand the form in space and to get the box in a believable perspective.
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