Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:33 AM, Friday March 19th 2021
Just done my Lession 1 homewori. I'd like to get feedback so I can get experiece and improve myself. TIA
Hello Laika, welcome to drawbox.
lines
I can tell you strive confident lines in your lines with the ghosting method. but in the ghost planes exercise it seems you weren't laying down points and ghosting for the crosshair. Remember to always apply the ghosting method to all lines that you'll make and put your focus on making a confident and even line over anything else!
ellipses.
It's good that you draw over ellipses twice, it keeps things clear.
For the ellipses table, you seem to do the wave ellipses sections more then regular 'straight across each box' sections. For future warm ups, try to do a couple sections of "straight across each box" ellipses first before doing the wave sections. It just helps to builds up repetition and muscle memory.
Remember to keep the ellipses within the bounds of each section and each ellipse should touching each other, without overlapping. You seem to improve on this as you progress but I think you might be working too fast sometimes. Don't mistake being fast for being confident. maybe spend more time ghosting an ellipses at a speed that's not too fast or slow, where you can internalize what mark you are going to make before making it.
In you funnels exercise, you are doing a good job aligning your ellipses to the minor axis. keep striving for this in the future.
boxes
In your rough perspective exercise, your lines are looking wobbly. When people get to this stage of the lesson, their focus on making a boxes then making a good confident line. Try to face every line as it is a ghosted line exercise, without taking into account that it's part of a box. The logic is that by making confident looking lines, you can make confident looking boxes.
I also see that some of your width and height lines are skewed and do not align with either horizon line or the perpendicular line. Unlike the lines, You can put down the two points for making a line, check if they are parallel to the horizon line or the perpendicular line. If they are not, add another point to correct it . You can put down many points until you are satisfied, then you can commit to the actual line!
I have no issues with your rotated boxes, it fulfill the requirements
For you organic perspective exercises, you sometime draw a the intial y shape with angles less then 90 degrees. remember that we want angles that are greater 90 for a more accurate box. My previous critique on making two point before making a line can apply here as well, as you can make sure that there is more then 90 degrees between the points before committing a line to it. Make sure you strive for this in your future warmup, as it is important to for the next exercises
To sum up, for your warm up exercises , you should focus on ghosting your lines and ellipses more effectively. the ghosting method is key for making your lines and ellipses making confident. That's why you will hear people insist so much on this (especially on earlier lessons), because our focus right now is to make confident lines over anything else.
I am going to mark this complete.
Good luck on your draw box journey!
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