Hello,
Really good job overall. It seems like you switched your layout or the paper sizes at some point and the page gets more busy, but consider being consistent over being efficient with drawing all the boxes in one place.
One of the advantages of having fewer on a page is that you draw more frequently the extensions and get to learn from how they look. Another advantage is that you can go longer on the extensions and see whether they actually converge accurately. In your case we have very short extensions it is difficult to see if they converge properly.
In case the vanishing point is close there are some examples in the later part where is looks very accurate so good job. Anything else is difficult to judge, so you possibly fall into the 'good enough' part.
I consider that your earlier layout and pagesize is much more beneficial and you could draw longer extensions and see better. On your own you do have the ruler and you can see at least, but it is less clear either way.
It is good that you caught yourself drawing extensions in the wrong direction and corrected it.
The thicker contour on the outer edge of the boxes is difficult to see if it is present or not because of the extended lines. I did not consider looking for this in my own drawing and did the same. But most of your lines appear to have the same thickness. You may have forgotten about this part of the exercise.
You did really good on the shapes, rotations and size variation on the boxes too, really good job. They might all be on the smaller side in case you kept the page size, but they are varied enough. Far better than my attempt where I accidentally got locked in very similar rotations and proportions across most pages.
Really good work overall. I would really appreciate if you triet to critique my own attempt at this.
Next Steps:
Really good work, consider doing complete extensions of the lines for further warm up exercises and only do 2-3 boxes on a page for them. Also try to do the contouring if you did not or to make it more visible.
Hi!
First of all thank you for your time and your useful critique!
Now, I did increase the number of boxes per page, a little bit because I kind of felt "rushed" to finish since it took me a LOT of time. But I know this isn't the best approach. The second reason is that I kind of felt guilty for the number of sheets of paper that I was using ahahah
But I see your point and I agree - being able to draw longer extensions makes it easier to understand one's accuracy.
Also, I tried to add lineweight in some pages but I didn't do it consistently throughout the whole challenge.
A lot of times happened that I could draw the first three sides pointing more or less at the same vanishing point but the fourth, the one extended from the hidden vertex, usually shot in a different direction for almost all three dimensions. That's something that I struggled with many times.
Anyhow, I'm glad you found it a really good job!
I'll try to critique your attempt as well!
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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