Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:30 PM, Friday January 21st 2022
Kinda surprised I managed to pull through, but there we go, lesson 1. Sorry about some of the glaring mistakes I've made here and there. Hopefully a PDF is fine?
Congrats on finishing lesson one
Lines
Superimposed lines look confident.
Ghosted lines look confident, I will say draw the lines a bit faster. There are a little wobbles in your lines. Ghost till confident and commit to the motion. Then execute the line with confident.
Lines in the ghosted planes are confident.
Ellipses
The ellipses are nice and confident. Ghost ellipses until they are confident with the motion. Then drawn them in fully committing to the motion. Table of ellipses looks good, ellipses are touching. Funnels also look good.
Plotted perspective
Plotted perspective looks solid. Consider adding lineweight where boxes overlap.
Rough perspective looks good, keep in mind that the vertical lines of the boxes are perpendicular to the horizon and the horuzontal lines are parallel to the horizon.
Rotated boxes look good. I can see you noted some of your errors. Keep doing that checking cross checking with the lesson.
The organic perspective is also good.
Remember to use the lesson once exercises as warmups.
https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/grinding
You can move on to the 250 box challenge
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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