Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:03 AM, Tuesday March 16th 2021

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After plotted perspective I took a break from drawabox for a month so my line confidence wasn't as good in my rough perspective. I also ran out of black pens during my plotted perspective lol.

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2:38 AM, Tuesday March 16th 2021

Hi there!

I'm not an official TA but I thought I could help out with what I've learned from my work in Lesson 1.

Your superimposed lines are lined up well. There's fraying but that happens when the lines get very long so that's expected to see!

With your ghosted lines and planes, I can see there's its getting a bit wobbly. That typically happens when we're trying to focus on accuracy but in this exercise the point is to have straight and smooth lines. We'll have time to work on accuracy later but right now at these early stages, its important to develop the habit and ability to produce confident smooth lines.

I think your ellipses in tables/planes/funnels are good, some of them aren't of the same degree but you've drawn through them a couple times which is important so great job on that!

You've plotted your perspective boxes back just as required so good job on that!

Now for the rough perspective box, the instructions say to bring the depth lines back to where they would hit the horizone line NOT where they shoud be going to (to the VP) that way you can see how far off you are from the VP. Additionally, I can see you're struggling with where to put the depth lines. Advice that I got was to ghost your lines and place a dot in the invisible depth for all 4 lines. those dots should then form a smaller but similar shape of your front plane box that you're making. the rough perspective exercise is important to understand because you're making educated decisions, not guesses. I see you struggling with drawing confident lines here as well which could worsen the issue. I think perhaps work on practicing the ghosting exercise every so often could really help build your skill.

As for the last two, I'll let a TA respond to those!

Hope this helps!

6:07 PM, Tuesday March 16th 2021

Thank you for your critique! For my rough perspective I was kind of aiming for that strategy but my boxes ended up deformed. Should I redo my rough perspective or move on to the 250 box challenge?

11:59 PM, Wednesday March 17th 2021
edited at 3:06 AM, Mar 18th 2021

i would say try the rough perspective again thinking about the shape the 4 points make (smaller, but similar in shape) because when i re did it with the 4 points before i sent the lines back it really helped me understand what i should be looking at! Its helped immensley now that I'm doing my 250 boxes convergences!

edited at 3:06 AM, Mar 18th 2021
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