podstakannik in the post "250 Box Challenge"
2018-07-24 00:36
Here are my boxes: https://imgur.com/a/CAg4nMA
I gave up after box 125 and continued after \~6 months, so the next page (boxes 126143) looks weird and wobbly. Took a while to get the hang of it again.
I started doing corrections only with box 164 by that time I figured out all "advanced estimation techniques" that I could. Honestly, it felt a waste of time to do this with the earlier boxes, because they had either dumb mistakes that I (hopefully) learned to avoid, or the very same errors that I had in the later boxes.
While correcting, I tested another way to check vanishing points, which turned out to be also helpful. I took a long steel ruler, placed one end on the vanishing point and aligned the ruler with the edges one by one, repeating three times for three points. If everything looked ok (or I was able to immediately spot and fix the error), I didn't extend the lines, so some lines are missing.
podstakannik in the post "Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2017-12-23 19:12
Thanks for the answers and for the feedback!
podstakannik in the post "Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2017-12-21 20:47
Hi! Here is my homework: https://imgur.com/a/kkezE (I checked self critique notes after finishing).
Page 2: I experimented with different speeds to find the most comfortable one, so some lines here are wobbly.
Page 7: if it's hard for me to draw ellipses at certain angles (vertical and left-leaning), should I spend some time now to fix this or I can simply turn the page until my overall mechanical skills improve?
Page 15: this abomination took 3 days, but turned out better than I expected. The blue lines are really messy, I often forgot to use ghosting.
Page 16: this one was very crappy, but it had proportional spacing between boxes. Pages 17 and 18 were less crappy, but I concentrated on the boxes and totally forgot about the spacing. I also forgot to try overlapping boxes.
podstakannik in the post "250 Box Challenge"
2018-07-24 23:11
Thanks! The ruler technnique mostly was kind of a fun mini-game "how fast can I find the possible vanishing point", I didn't rely on it much. But I understand your concerns.
Regarding shaky lines - yeah, it's a problem. When I'm warming up (connecting randomly placed dots), usually I'm able to draw fast & straight lines, but with boxes it becomes worse. I'll try to improve it during lesson 2.