Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:06 AM, Monday March 8th 2021
Thank you for the huge welcome I've felt in the community and for the feedback to whoever critiques my homework.
My own critique of my work (the areas I see for improvement):
Lines:
Wobble in lines. In drawabox you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy. - I'm trying here but I do wobble sometimes. Before DaB I was definitely a chicken scratcher, but this is improving even in my other work now. My lines get wobblier as I get to boxes though, because I want them to be accurate.
Arching lines. Sometimes the lines will arch a bit: trying to arch consciously to the opposite direction is helping me.
Repeating lines. No matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should kept the line as it if were correct and move on. - I have a question on this: If I can tell a line is in the wrong place for a box, can I do the other lines semi-ignoring it, or do i need to show the whole box wrong, but meeting at single corners. e.g. if I undershoot a corner, is that now the new corner?
In the ellipses section:
As I started drawing ellipses I realised I really really couldn't do circles and I wanted to. Sometimes two rules clashed - keeping the ellpses in bounds and keeping equal ellipses within that section. I prioritised keeping the ellipses equal when they were circles. Where overlaps occured I used the 3 sides to determine the size I was going for. I've included some pages of my warm ups (green paper) to show I've continued to practice ellipses, because to my eye this is my shakiest section.
On funnels, a couple of the largest ellipses do not have minor axis (the line in the middle) which cut the ellipse in 2 symetrical halves.
I would love to learn how to make the ellipses in planes look like they are on planes... I'll keep practicing these in warm ups.
In the boxes section:
I'm not gonna lie, I'm really happy with the improvement I've made in my understanding of boxes. I can see mistakes in the perspective on my organic boxes page. I'm looking forward to working on that in the 250 boxes challenge.