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DanielSan

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    5:19 AM, Friday September 24th 2021

    Hello Juriga.

    I can see that your lines were drawn with confidence, with wobbling on some of them, probably because you are getting used with using your shoulder. That will get better with practice.

    However, It seems that some of your ellipses were not drawn through 2 or 3 times. Also, a lot of ellipses were not touching the bounds, on the Table of Ellipses. Try to keep that in mind when doing these exercises again on your warmups. Good job, however, on keeping your ellipses touching each other.

    Another thing is that your ellipses have tilting minor axes, on ellipses in funnels. Their minor axis is clearly not alligned with the line that halves the funnel. You need to work on this on yofollowing exercises, you did a lot of chicken scratching.

    On the following exercises with boxes, you did a lot of chicken scratching on your boxes edges. I understand that you tried to make your lines thicker to help you see the perspective, but these extras lines must be in the same way, with confidence and using the ghosting method. Usually, passing through them only 1 more time is enough to make your lines thicker, in subtle way. Your lines must not "shout " with excessive thickness. You wil see that better on the 250 boxes challenge's explanation page.

    Congratulations on finish your Lesson 1. Hope you continue improving, and dont forget that doing your warmups will help you improving faster.

    Next Steps:

    Move on to 250 boxes challenge, with the thickness on lines' question in mind, and working on your ellipses (passing through and alignment) on your warmups.

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    2:48 AM, Saturday August 28th 2021

    Thanks for your feedback. In fact, I wasn't prioritizing my lines being straight, so they ended up arching. I wasn't aware of that. This yet happens sometimes, but I am working on it. Same thing on tilting the minor axes. I think i am improving these on my warmups.

    Thank you for the advices.

    Edit: Also, sorry for taking so long to answer

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