A few disclaimers.....I used different color ink (for the Superimposed Lines and the Rough Perspective ) because I was having trouble "seeing" my lines and was getting confused with which line went with which box. Also my two pages of Ghosted Planes were used for the Ellipses in Planes assignment. Any and all critique is welcomed and appreciated, thanks a bunch!!!!
Hey MooChie, just took a look at your work and overall is very good.
Your lines are good, with just a bit of arching on the ghosted ones.
Your ellipses are also nice. In a few cases you could have packed them a little tighter together, but other than that, everything is very solid work.
On your rough perspective boxes, there a few that could be better aligned with the horizon line. On some occasions you also repeated your lines in order to correct them. Avoid doing that. Assume your mistake and do better on the next one. On your rotated boxes there is definitely some rotation, but just very slight. Your should have pushed the rotation much further in order to get a better feel of drawing them in each position.
Your last exercise, the organic perspective, has interesting compositions, but you should have definitely have exaggerated on the difference between the smaller (farther away) and the larger (closer) boxes. You could also have overlapped more of the boxes. In some occasions here you also drew over the same lines.
Very good job here in this lesson.
Next Steps:
250 boxes challenge.
Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out!!! I agree, when I make a mistake I need to just accept it and not try to re-draw it. I'm working in the 250 boxes and I find myself doing that every now and then. Thanks again!!!
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