MikotoKenn

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    10:15 AM, Friday November 20th 2020

    No worries. Hope you are doing well :)

    I already finished insects xD.

    I paid more attention to line weight this time :3

    9:07 PM, Thursday November 5th 2020

    This is the sunshine plan you want: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/786863366140181589/

    The one more plant: https://imgur.com/a/A7PSwBd

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    1:03 PM, Tuesday September 15th 2020

    Your lines are good. You are building your journey towards confidence, so ghost more next times. The ellipses aren't tight. You didn't draw through the ellipses twice or thrice.

    As for the rotated boxes. I see improvement each time you did the exercise, but still some of the boxes esp the outer ones aren't rotated.

    It's rough to tell you to repeat that exercise after 4 trials, so move on for now.

    Yet, I don't see the perpendicular lines nor the four outer boxes used as checkers, so the boxes you draw feels as if they are falling from the air...

    This is a good lesson to follow the instructions next times. Learning from trials is more fruitful than just following the instructions blindly since you become aware of what wrong would happen if you didn't.

    Next Steps:

    Yes, move on, but remember to draw through ellipses. You can do a page mixed with lines, super imposed lines, ellipses in planes, funnels. All that in a page as a daily warm up.

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    12:40 PM, Tuesday September 15th 2020

    Your lines are confident and drawing through the ellipses is tight, but some of the ellipses aren't smooth enough.

    Some of the lines in rough perspective aren't parallel nor perpendicular.

    But you pass, just the rotated boxes... They aren't rotated enough ( esp, the top set of boxes) and the boxes in the middle are too thin. Overall all boxes needs more width between the front and back planes.

    Next Steps:

    Do the rotated boxes again. Use the homework example as a references

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    12:19 PM, Tuesday September 15th 2020

    That's better rotation :)

    Next Steps:

    Go for 250 boxes challenge.

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    1:05 PM, Friday September 11th 2020

    Your lines are clean, there is not much wobbling, but just a small thing: the lines at the end changed direction. So you tried to force the line to end at the point. The quality of the line is more important.

    On the other hand, in the superimposed lines the lines are far from the end and they arched a bit.

    Some of the ellipses in funnels didn't align to the minor axis.

    Some of the boxes aren't rotated, esp the outer ones.

    There is not much variation in the line weight in organic boxes.

    Next Steps:

    Do the rotated boxes again, look at the reference this time to help you better. There were just small remarks on the other exercises, but I suggest doing an extra page of ghosted lines, superimposed lines, funnels and organic boxes.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    12:18 PM, Friday September 11th 2020

    I like it ^

    12:08 PM, Friday September 11th 2020

    Nah, I meant this lines in between table sections:

    |https://imgur.com/a/btyoVY1

    Good luck for you :)

    Thank you! I have been exercising to improve my dexterity as part of my daily routine by ghosting lines and drawing from shoulder coping Andrew Loomis' "Fun with a Pencil." The faces there are comic, so I don't have to worry about the beauty of the result. To make it harder, I used pen as drawabox advices. So even if when I draw with pencil, I don't have the habit of erasing every wrong line. Anyway, there were previous attempts not that my lines are that clean from the first time :3

    10:23 AM, Friday September 11th 2020
    10:24 AM, Wednesday September 9th 2020

    Cool, you did better this time. For those lines who are still off, your hands will improve over time. Even when you move to the future lessons or do any other studies for dawing (or having fun), make drawing lines and some ellipses in planes a routine ... like just 5 of each one a day. This is not even a page, so that you don't burn out. Consistency even if when it is small makes progress :)

    Next Steps:

    250 box challenge

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