Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:57 AM, Sunday April 17th 2022
Thank you for your time. I would appreciate any tips or critique.
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10:46 AM, Sunday April 17th 2022
Congrats on completing Lesson 1.
Your superimposed lines look mostly good. They’re generally smooth, and properly lined up at the start. The ghosted lines/planes are mostly confident, save for at their ends. Overshooting is better as undershooting.
Ellipses in the table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good. The ellipses in planes looks mostly good, but sometimes are they deformed. You can rotate the page to better align the ellipses. he funnels look alright. Some ellipses are not aligned.
The plotted perspective exercise looks alright.
In the rough perspective horizontal and vertical lines are not always aligned to the horizen. You tend to undershoot. Overshooting ist better as undershooting.
In organic perspective exercise are the most boxes well done.
Organic perspective. In the first panel the first box on the right side bigger as the second. That ist not alright. The first box is farer and must be smaller. The error can also be seen on the next pages. Not all lines are parallel to initial Y.
Next Steps:
1 page rough perspective
1 page organic perspective
4:13 AM, Monday April 18th 2022
Thanks for the critique!
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