Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
6:16 PM, Thursday May 6th 2021
The following is a reflection of my work in this exercise.
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Overall, this exercise took longer than I expected for sure. I haven't drawn for a long time before, and never exercises like this, so my estimation is likely very off. Frequent breaks definitely helped me stay patient, even if it was in the middle of an exercise (to prevent myself from rushing to finish. I do wonder though, if I have a break in the middle of a drawing session (which for me is typically 1 - 3 hours), later on would I have to warm up again after coming back? Or is a 5-10 minute break short enough that I can just jump back onto things?
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For the lines exercises, I tried the "lift pen at end to create tapering" technique (separate practice, not in the exercise), but I couldn't draw a line that didn't either undershoot or overshoot because I can't lift my pen at the proper place to still reach the end dot. I will continue to practice this, but for the exercise I decided to just keep my pen on paper.
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Ellipses are very hard for me, especially circles, and especially the bigger close-to-circle ones I had to draw for the ellipses in plane exercise. Definitely something that I will have to work on. However, considering at the beginning I couldn't even keep my pen on the paper the entire time, at least I saw some improvement in that section of the exercises. The funnel exercise definitely had some ellipses miss the right minor axis, I hope this will improve as I practice more ellipses.
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Coming to the plotted perspective exercise I found I had trouble determining if lines were parallel or perpendicular. I'm pretty sure some of the back lines on the boxes are not placed correctly either, too many lines to sort through.
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Rough perspective had some very inconsistent lines to the vanishing point. Generally the farther ones were off by more but sometimes the closer ones were off too. Probably an issue between me ghosting the line and placing the point down. One of boxes on the second panel of page 2 had lines going downwards when the box was below the horizon. I have no idea how I drew that.
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On the rotated boxes exercise I drew the initial box too long (in terms of depth), but I don't think it affected the exercise too much. Some of the back faces of the rotated boxes were a lot more rectangular in nature than they should be, I think this came as a result of some misguided understanding of where the back face should be relative to the front face on rotated boxes. The corner ones were off by a lot, no surprise there.
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For organic perspectives, many of the boxes definitely do not look like boxes. I take small solace in the fact that I'l be drawing a lot more of these boxes in the following challenge.
Please let me know if the above is too long, if so, I will shorten or remove it next submission. Thanks for any critiques!