Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:12 PM, Monday July 19th 2021
The last one is just awful but I guess you learn from your mistakes right?
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10:20 AM, Tuesday July 20th 2021
Hello there!
Lets take a look at your submission!
lines
Starting with the superimposed lines exercise, there is some minor fraying on both ends on some of these lines. Remember to always take your time when making these marks. Luckily, these are few and far between.
Your ghosted lines exercise looks good. Id also suggest to try and draw some longer lines the size of the page, so you could practice the longer lines as well. In addition, there seems to be some slight arcing, but these are few and far between. Moreover, the most important thing is confidence, which these lines are. Good job!
elipses
Moving onto the elipses section, I notice that you drew through your elipses more than 3 times. Instead, we should try to aim to draw through our elipses 2-3 times (2 preferably). However, just like lines, the most important thing is that they are confident, which these elipses are.
Your funnels look good. Sometimes you seem to struggle with keeping the elipses aligned to their minor axis, but in general this exercise looks good. If you feel like challenging yourself more with these funnels, Id suggest to try and increase the degree of the elipses the more you move outwards of the center of the funnel, like described here.
boxes
You did the plotted perspective exercise as instructed - not much to add here.
When doing the rough perspective exercise, remember that horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon and vertical lines should be perpendicular to it. You already show evidence that you understand this concept, but on some of these boxes this tends to be a little off. Altough I do sometimes spot some minor arcs/wobbles on some of these lines, this exercise looks good and you did good plotting the lines towards their vanishing points.
Your rotated boxes exercise looks great as well. You should watch out for repeating lines, though. When messing up a line, its best to leave it be and carry on with the exercise, as the drawing will look messy. But besides that, it looks very well done. Good job!
The organic perspective exercise looks good, too, altough some of the repeating lines still persist.
You did a good job on this lessson, so Ill mark it as complete. Do not forget to include these exercises in your warmups. Good luck on the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge.
6:02 PM, Tuesday July 20th 2021
Thank you so much! I didn't expect such a thorough review so thank you for taking the time to critique my exercises, it helped a lot!
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