Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:48 PM, Tuesday May 3rd 2022
one page is crumbled up sorry..my cat did that ...and thank you in advance :)
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9:50 PM, Friday May 20th 2022
Hey one two three four five six,congrats on finishing lesson 1. I'm kL, I will help you with your submission. I will divide this into three sections of lesson 1.
1. Lines
- A well executed smooth confident lines. Well done!
2. Ellipses
- Also a well executed ellipses. Well done!
3. Boxes
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Your Plotted Perspective box are too few, I know you've been waiting quite sometime for critique after submission, but I apologize, I'm gonna need to ask for revision. You did very well here, but please draw additional boxes. 4-6 boxes ideally on each panel https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example. Don't hesitate to draw box behind or in front of other box.
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Your Rough Perspective is well executed. Nothing to mention here.
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Your Rotated Boxes turns out great, although the outer-most boxes aren't rotating https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating. Practice this exercise again after you go through lessons forward, to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improve.
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Your Organic Perspective also turns out great, but the flow feels to rigid. It will feel more flowing if you rotate some box like https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/example. Your boxes line construction relying pretty heavily on parallel line which is leading to some weird divergences in some cases. The lines construction after the initial Y line suppose to converge to their respective vanishing points using Y line as guide. The next lesson and exercise, 250 Box Challenge, will teach deeper understanding how to construct box with each lines converge to their respective vanishing points.
Overall this is a solid submission that shows a nice deal of growth. You seem pretty comfortable using ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework. Draw additional boxes on your Plotted Perspective, then I will mark your lesson 1 as complete. Good luck.
Next Steps:
Draw additional boxes on Plotted Perspective exercise.
9:01 AM, Saturday May 21st 2022
Hey there.. thank you so so much for taking your time to help me out...about the organic perspective i did struggle a lot on that exercise..as you mentioned i hope i will improve on it..and again thank you so much for your kind words ..i updated the corrections on plotted perspective..i would be more than happy if you could check it out :)
5:58 PM, Saturday May 21st 2022
Your welcome, thank you for the revision it's well executed. Best luck on 250 Box Challenge.
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
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1:45 PM, Thursday May 26th 2022
That's great I think you can move on ????
5:13 PM, Thursday May 26th 2022
Thank you so much :) I will be continuing with the next exercise .
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5:50 AM, Thursday May 26th 2022
LINES
The lines look confident enough. Ghosted lines look straight too, some a little wobbly as if you hesitated, overall looks good. Ghosted planes, the first page looks like you arched the lines a bit in some planes. Second page looks good.
ELLIPSES
Ellipses on table look good. Remember to draw through ellipses 2 to 3 times (2, preferably). In some it looks you went for 4. They're between bounds, so it looks good on that.
Ellipses on planes, they look confident enough. It looks you went through ellipses 4 times like in the ellipses on table excercise, remember to draw through them 2 to 3 times.
Funnels look good overall.
BOXES
Plotted perspective looks good. Aim for more boxes on this excercise to make sure you grasp the concept.
Rough perspective looks good, parallel lines are on point.
Rotated boxes looks good, but the most outer boxes on the corners look like they're not rotating.
Keep this in mind when doing this excercise as your warmup.
Organic perspective, some lines are not parallel to each other. Keep this in mind when doing your warmups.
5:12 PM, Thursday May 26th 2022
Thank you so so much for taking your time to reply.. you've made really great points.. i will make sure to keep these things in mind while doing my upcoming exercises ..Again thank you :)
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