SwordFighter

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    9:32 AM, Saturday January 15th 2022

    So to that you have nothing to worry about with regards to ghosting you can't ghost too much. The idea of ghosting is to prepare yourself for the execution. The reason you're failing is probably because you're hesitating or haven't built up the muscle balance. I also think that you're overthinking it a little. You should stop ghosting when you feel confident about the line you're about to draw and even if you're confident there will still be mistakes.

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    7:04 AM, Friday December 31st 2021

    If you want to do official critique you will have to start over as you did 250 box challenge. You might not need to redo lesson 1 homework and can submit it for review. the requirements will be more strict so they can give you feedback.

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    9:24 AM, Monday January 4th 2021

    I'm going to take a look at your homework submission, keep in mind that I'm not a proffessional and am liable to make mistakes.

    Superimposed lines You have a clearly defined point from where you start executing your marks, but there's a lot of wobbly lines and lines that go of the trajectory of the first line. You're also attempting curved lines way too early.

    To fix your wobbly lines you need to stop hesitating and develop your muscle memory to the point where you can trust in your shoulder for mark execution. It will also fix those lines that stray to far from the trajectory of the first line. In the end it's all about practice.

    Ghosted Lines Are fine just renember that flow is more important then accuracy as accuracy will develop naturally. I also hope that you're rotating the page as you draw those lines in order to find the comfortable angle of approach.

    I noticed some mistakes you made in the Ghosted Planes exercise Your lines are smooth but you have trouble overshooting which occurs when you execute the mark you almost reach the end and you don't lift the pen off the page when the pen is on the second point. In some cases you hesitated so much that you didn't even reach the end point. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/lifthand This will help you with your problem in those areas.

    Elipses in planes are wobbly but at the start they will always be wobbly make sure that you draw through them 2 or 3 times for more practice in developing your muscle memory. Some are floating not quite reaching the four points, and a lot are wobbly which is a mistake but as your muscle memory develops It will fix itself over time.

    In the Table of Elipses exercise you are struggling to draw smooth elipses as you're focusing more on accuracy, some of them don't even look like circles. I encourage you to reread lesson 1 elipses section again and the mistakes in the homework section.

    Your elipses in funnels have the same problem as your Tables of elipses.

    Now onto boxes.

    Your plotted perspective is alright no mistakes there , but there is a mistake in the rough perspective exercise as you didn't you a diferent color marker that would tell you where the lines intersect with the horizon line more clearly, and the lines on those boxes should be confident smooth continuous black strokes.

    It clearly shows that you were struggling with the rotated boxes exercise especially where you have to rotate the boxes in tight areas that aren't on the axis lines , fortunately a beginner should have a lot trouble with that since they are no where near comfortable with the exercise at first.

    You have a lot of distortotion in the organic perspective exercise and you're not drawing through your boxes which is a huge mistake. Also for the y way of drawing boxes you aren't thinking about greater than 90 degree angle which results in your distortions or divergence.

    Overall Congrats On Completing Lesson 1 Now Move on to the 250 box challenge.

    Next Steps:

    250 Boxes Challenge

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    3:21 PM, Sunday December 6th 2020

    Alright After looking at your Lesson Submission. Your Superimposed lines have no problems , but your ghosted lines have problems of overshooting again this isn't a problem as a beginner since accuracy will build over time.

    Elipses in planes have problems I noticed that you are having trouble with fitting them snuggly in the planes and it also looks that whenever you're drawing over them a second time they steer off trajectory and you stop drawing them. The solution to this would be to draw through them even if you lost track of your trajectory. Also the requirement was two pages not three Please try to keep to the recommended number of exercises and don't grind.

    Tables of Elipses nothing wrong there you are doing okay.

    Elipses in funnels are okay except the part where you drew a straight line without arcing lines and the line in the middle. Please try to follow the instructions exactly as they are written. Moving on to RoughPerspective everything is okay there is nothing to comment about that there.

    You are clearly struggling with rotated boxes by keeping them neatly aligned to each other , you're clearly not using the neighbouring forms that help us keep everything snuggly rotated. Try to think more about perspective how the vertical line runs perpendicular to the horizon and how the horizontal runs parallel. The second Page is better than the first , but this exercise only recommended 1 pages of rotated boxes. This exercise is meant to come out horribly the first time you do this so don't worry if It's not perfect.

    In organic perspective you're using dramatic and shallow foreshortening in the wrong places try to read more about perspective in the adittional notes https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7.

    Overall This Lesson Is complete But i recommend you to only do the number of homework that is required.

    Next Steps:

    Do the 250 box challenge for spatial awareness.

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    11:37 AM, Sunday December 6th 2020
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