Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
1:07 PM, Sunday August 25th 2024
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1:19 AM, Thursday September 5th 2024
Hi there! I saw your submission, so let's get right to it:
Lines and Planes. Right off the bat I can see your superimposed lines are starting from the origin, which is a good start. The arcing is likely to improve as you master controlling your arm. You can already see improvements just looking at the ghosted lines exercise. As far as the planes go, I think your lines are strong. You may want to ghost a few more times to make sure your lines hit their marks as far as crossing across the center of the plane, but as far as I can see, it's not something we're supposed to be looking out for.
Ellipses.
Looking again at the planes exercise, I notice some trouble keeping your ellipses touching the sides of the planes here. This issue also appears in the tables. I will say however that your ellipses are drawn through consistently without any significant or obvious attempts to correct; this is a good tendency to have, and I encourage it. The funnels exercise, as you may have noticed, will be especially crucial in helping you improve your control. Make super-sure you're ready to make your ellipses before you touch the paper, of course, and as you practice this in warmups down the line, your ellipses will fill the space more consistently.
Perspective.
This area can usually get rough for new students. I can see though, that you have taken great care in setting up your plotted and rough perspective exercises. In the rough exercise, I can see you have a good eye when it comes to tracking the horizon line for your boxes. Your organic perspective... There are a couple things that stand out to me.
* First, there's a few boxes whose edges diverge in space. It only showed up a few times, to be fair, but make sure you take some extra time to set up your lines and make sure they're converging towards your initial 'Y.'
* Second, a good number of these boxes have dramatic foreshortening. While this alone isn't a problem, part of the goal of an exercise like this is to make your boxes appear dynamic as though they are moving through space; mixed amid boxes with shallow convergence like this can throw the sense of scale off a ways. This isn't something that'll require new pages, just something to keep in mind going forward. Rotated Boxes.
I think this looks pretty immaculate as far as I can tell. This is a pretty tough one for most, and it remains tough for a long time, but I think you have a good start on this one. When it comes up in warmups, don't worry about completing the whole thing, just do a quadrant at a time.
Next Steps:
All in all, I think you did fine. Feel free to advance to the 250 box challenge. Good Luck!
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