Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:24 AM, Friday January 22nd 2021
Looking at it...ye I can definitely do better :(
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11:56 AM, Thursday January 28th 2021
Hello artemisjy, congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today.
Lines
Super Imposed Lines: These are off to a good start, I can see you placed your pen down carefully on the starting dot for each line becuase they only fray at one end. They're mostly looking smooth and confident too, good job.
Ghosted Lines and Ghosted planes: These are looking pretty good. You're using the ghosting method to good effect. Sometimes you miss or overshoot the second point slightly, but you'll get more accurate with practice.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses: Really good! Overall looking smooth and confident, and you've drawn through the vast majority of them 2-3 times. Nice work keeping each ellipse touching each other, without overlapping.
Ellipses in Planes: It looks like you did this exercise twice? Overall you did a good job here, it's just a little harder to review with the extra lines there. Looking smooth and confident, nice work.
Ellipses in Funnels: Great work, your allignmet is good and you've even shifted the degree of the ellipses as you move out from the smallest one in the centre.
Boxes
Plotted Perspective: Good work.
Rough Perspective: You have a couple of missing back edges on the boxes on the first page, but you remembered them all on the second one, good job. Overall your box construction looks really solid, you've done a great job keeping your horizontal lines parallel to the horizon line and your verticals perpendicular to it, very nice. I am seeing a few repeating lines in this exercise though. No matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should keep the line as it if were correct and move on. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice.
Rotated Boxes: Good job keeping your edges nice and close together, and you've done a decent job with the rotation too. There are a couple of back edges missing on some of the furthermost boxes but this is still a really good effort on a difficult exercise, welll done.
Organic Perspective: Good job varying the size of your boxes to give a sense of depth. I can see your boxes rotating as you move them through space, well done. Your box constructions are decent for the most part but there are some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Next Steps:
Well done completing lesson one, this was a solid homework submission.
Please move on to the 250 box challenge.
Remember to use the lesson one exercises for your warm ups.
11:41 AM, Wednesday February 3rd 2021
Thanks so much for the detailed critique, they're super helpful!
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