Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:14 PM, Thursday March 19th 2020
Reposting my lesson 1 submission because I think I got buried.
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11:00 AM, Tuesday March 31st 2020
your lines seem confident but they tend to arch, your table of elixis is not respecting the assignment rules (all elipsis should touche to top and bottom end of the section and touch the other lateral elipsis, it is better on the second page.
Your boxes are better and the lines are better executed
Next Steps:
I'd ask you for a page on table of elipsis keeping in mind the rules of the assignment.
try to do them confidently
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11:27 PM, Tuesday May 26th 2020
pg 1&2 overlapping lines:
based on the fading line weights, i believe you may be making your strokes too fast. Thats making them curved and very inaccurate. Slow down and try to be more accurate.
pg 3 ghosting:
most lines are curved. maybe youre not drawing from the shoulder? What works for me is to count out my ghost strokes to 4, then draw on #5. slow and steady.
pg 4&5 planes:
these lines are getting more accurate, but still a lot of curves. Many lines are overshooting the end-point, so i think youre still going too fast.
pg 6&7 table of elipses:
the elipses themselves are not bad, but i think you should re-read the instructions. youre not touching the sides, not connecting the circles.
pg 8&9 elipses in planes:
again i think speed is the issue here. elipses are not accurately touching the sides.
pg 10 funnels:
good elipses here. maybe try to add some variation in the minir axis? some thin, some fat?
pg 11 constructed perspective:
pretty good. some boxes have slanted verticals, could be more accurate. also, looks like you gave up a little bit with the hatching. pay as much attention to hatching as to the boxes.
pg 12&13 rough perspective:
multiple lines on the boxes. more ghosting practice i think. boxes far from the vanish point dont diminish enough. i struggle with this a LOT. It seems like we have to exhaggerate our guesses a lot more when drawing boxes far from the VP. The very last set was the best.
pg 14 rotated boxes:
this one is always tough. i think its important to step back at each and every box, to really get a feel for how much it needs to rotate. each row needs to be tighter than the last to really get that spherical shape.
your lines are getting better.
pg 15&16 rotated boxes on a curvy line:
decent lines but some boxes are very distorted. check out the additional information section on boxes where he talks about distortion.
overall good, more ghosting practice, stay slow, accurate, watch the distortion.
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