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Hi! Welcome (back) to drawabox! Let me look through this, then.
Your superimposed lines look great. Lot’s of confidence on display here, and the lines are properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. 2 things. 1. I don’t think these have been drawn through 8 times, as per the instructions. 2. The arcing lines shouldn’t be an afterthought, filling up the gaps between the straight lines. To do that, they need to be small, and small arcing lines are a little difficult right now. Stick to large motions, as you get used to the new pivot. Then, once comfortable, feel free to up the difficulty. The ghosted lines/planes look good, a notable exception being the non-diagonal center lines of the planes. I’ll give you one guess as to why. (What are these lines missing, that their neighbors aren’t? That’s right, start/end points. Without a clear goal (where does the line start, where does it end), ghosting suffers, and if ghosting suffers, the line suffers too.)
The table of ellipses exercise is mostly good. Your marks are confident, and circular. They feel a little rushed, however, in that you’ve drawn through them an inconsistent number of times, said rotations have a hard time matching up, and you’ve flicked the pen at the end. This could, however, be as a result of your speed. Be careful that you’re not confusing speed with confidence. Either way, aim to draw through your ellipses a full 2 times, and see if you can lift your pen off the page at the end of them, rather than flick it off. Also, remember that ellipses in a frame need to touch all sides of it, instead of floating inside it. As such, things like page 2, row 5, column 2, are incorrect. The ellipses in planes are similar (the good, and the bad.) These ones, especially, seem to have been drawn through 1 and a half times, at best. Be a little more careful regarding that, please. The same can be said for the funnels. Though, thankfully, those are the only issues that plague them. What we’re most concerned with, that is to say, smoothness, and roundness, are good, so it’s just a question of fixing this.
The plotted perspective exercise looks good, though the hatching should’ve been done with a ruler, too. Also, estimate the location of the back line, in such a way that it’s perpendicular to the horizon, instead of trusting your points implicitly.
The rough perspective exercise is a little strange. Are you sure that you’re plotting points down, checking them, adjusting them, and then drawing your lines? Because it seems, from the lack of points, and the often stopped-short/overshot lines, that you’re just drawing them arbitrarily. By the way, each line is drawn once, and only once, as mentioned in the ghosted lines page. Resist the urge to correct your mistakes. As for the exercise itself, you’ve been careful to keep the appropriate lines parallel/perpendicular to the horizon, but the convergences are a little off at times (which, if you’ve not planned, as I suspect, makes sense.)
Skipping ahead, I notice that the rotated boxes exercise and the organic perspective exercise suffer from the same thing. As mentioned in the ghosted lines section, the ghosting method is to be used on every single mark that you make for this course. I’ll need to request quite a few re-do’s, here, as these don’t represent the best of your ability, but I’ll critique these as-is, anyway, so that you may get something else out of this, too.
The rotated boxes exercise shows a good attempt. Mainly, the issue is that your boxes aren’t nearly as snug as they need to be. You’ve not been able to use their neighboring edges, as such. And speaking of, there’s not enough of them, because a lot of your boxes haven’t been drawn through. In this exercise, especially, planning ahead is important, and we do this, of course, by plotting points.
Save for the issues come as a result of a lack of planning, the organic perspective exercise looks good. The foreshortening is consistently shallow, and the increase in size looks good, too. There’s even some lineweight, to help clarify the relationships between your boxes.
Next Steps:
There’s a lot of good here, but we’ll need to work a little more on your boxes, before I’m able to move you on to the box challenge. So, I’d like to see 1 frame of the rough perspective exercise, 1 quadrant (that’s a fourth) of the rotated boxes exercise, and 1 frame of the organic perspective exercise, each following the specific instructions outlined in their specific sections (mainly: PLAN!) Feel free to split a page in half, for the rough/organic perspective exercise combo. Good luck.
Hi, thank you for the fast reply and the useful critique, I have done as you asked and tried to plan a little more, but the rotated box excercise came out a bit of a mess in the extreme angle. I hope this is ok.
So, starting with the rough perspective exercise, I feel like I must ask you again: are you sure that you’re plotting start/end points for all of your lines? Because, being as faint as they are, it’s easy to check, and I don’t see any. Planning is a large part of this exercise, and this course as a whole; it’s, in fact, the reason the ghosting method exists- so that you can get in the habit of thinking before you draw. Even more than that, in exercises like these, it’s quite difficult to think that many steps in advance, so splitting the task into chunks, and handing them one at a time, is the way to go. As for the exercise itself, it’s not too different, I’m sorry to say. The convergences, of course, don’t improve overnight, but I was hoping that at least the automatic reinforcing would be gone. Unfortunately, there’s quite a few instances where you’ve corrected an incorrect line. The hatching, too, is a little sloppy, as it doesn’t go from one side of the plane to the next, but instead floats inside of it. Feel free to let me know if I’m misunderstanding any of your work, by the way; I could be wrong about any of this. But, as far as my reading goes, this is it.
In the organic perspective exercise, too, it seems like you’ve used points to plan your convergences, but not necessarily to plan your lines. To clarify, what you need to do is treat every line that you draw as if it’s a ghosted line. That is to say, you should plot start/end points, ghost between them, and then execute. This is especially important if the line needs to do other things, like, say, head to a specific vanishing point, as it does here, as it’s difficult to keep both that, and the line itself, in mind, at once.
The rotated boxes exercise is more of the same, in regards to the linework, it looks like. Also, the issue with the neighboring edges hasn’t been taken care of in its entirety (here’s an illustrated example, so that there’s no confusion), and, same as last time, you've not drawn through all of your boxes, either, but, this exercise being as overwhelming as it is, this is a little more expected. Still, some proper planning would’ve helped, here, too.
Next Steps:
Overall, this submission doesn’t quite do enough for me to be able to move you on to the box challenge, but before we talk about your next step, I’d like to confirm that you understand what I’m telling you, and, more importantly, that I’m not misunderstanding any of your work. We’ll start from there.
Alright, I think I understood what is the problem with the ghosted lines and the hatching. I am not sure, however, what exactly you want me to do with the rotated boxes exercise outside of drawing through and planning more. Thank you for being so patient with me, I am a bit slow.
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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