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10:27 PM, Wednesday August 10th 2022
Hello again.
You're extending your lines in the correct direction and your hatching is looking tidier which I'm glad to see.
That being said you're still trying to keep your lines parallel rather than thinking of how they would converge to a vanishing point. Often times they end up diverging because of this as well.
I'll be asking you to draw 20 more please, remember that there isn't 0 point perspective, your lines can't extend into infinity they should always converge to vanishing points eventually.
If you have any questions feel free to ask them but I encourage you to look over the examples provided in your critique as well.
Next Steps:
20 more boxes please.
10:57 PM, Monday August 15th 2022
https://imgur.com/gallery/v6JuiOW
Twenty more
6:36 PM, Tuesday August 16th 2022
Alrighty, I'm going to tag in for Tofu here.
So there's two main things I want to address. Firstly, you did bring one vanishing point in closer this time around, but changing the rate of foreshortening itself requires you to bring all your vanishing points in closer. Shifting vanishing points relative to one another (bringing one closer but not the others) is more rotating the given form.
So, you want to bring all your vanishing points in.
The second point I wanted to mention is that right now you're forcing vanishing points to infinity, resulting in some of your sets of lines running parallel on the page, rather than converging.
Where the vanishing point goes depends on the orientation of the edges in 3D space being represented on the page. The only situation in which a vanishing point goes to infinity is if the edges it governs run perpendicularly to the viewer's angle of sight - basically meaning, they're running straight across our field of view, not slanting towards or away from the viewer through the depth of the scene.
Given that we're rotating boxes freely and randomly throughout this challenge, the likelihood that you're going to have boxes that align so perfectly is going to be minimal, so you're going to want to have some convergence, even if it's only very slight.
Long story short: don't force your vanishing points to infinity. It's something I see students doing when they want to try and simplify the challenge in front of them (having to manage the consistent convergences of 3 sets of lines per box is a lot harder than doing so for just 1 or 2), but it actually makes the challenge itself incorrect.
So - try another 10 boxes, making a point to bring all your vanishing points in closer, and having none at infinity. When sending them in, do so as a reply to Tofu's last comment so he gets notified.
7:12 PM, Monday August 22nd 2022
10:15 PM, Monday August 22nd 2022
While your lines still tend to converge in pairs heavily this is a big improvement and you've done a good job of bringing your vanishing points in closer.
I think from this point forward it's just a matter of building up more mileage so I'll be marking your submission complete and move you on to the next lesson.
Keep practicing boxes and previous exercises in your warm ups and best of luck in lesson 2.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
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