Jme

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    2 users agree
    4:26 PM, Sunday September 6th 2020

    Very little fraying at the tail ends of the lines exercise, nice going! Scrolling through the exercises, it almost seems as though your confidence in creating strokes and lines decreases the more complex the homework gets. Everything up until the boxes/perspective exercises feels loose and confident, which is great. Is the focus on the requirements for perspective perhaps drawing your concentration away from making those clean, loose lines?

    I already said this to someone else as well, but as you are really good at creating those kinds of lines between two points, maybe plotting the corners of the perspective boxes down on paper and then drawing lines between them (for the short term until you feel more confident) help convey more confidence in box drawing?

    Then again, we gotta dive head-first into that 250 box challenge after this, so it might not matter...we'll all have perfect boxes by the end of that!

    2 users agree
    4:20 PM, Sunday September 6th 2020

    For the initial exercise (lines), I can tell you are making broad, confident strokes, but the lines I see in some of your box exercise don't visually appear to be applying that same technique in all cases. Do you feel more hesitant when constructing boxes, perhaps because you feel a stonger need to control where the line ends up in order to get those parallel edges?

    I think you did a pretty good job as well with drawing a line between two points -- I wonder if, for practice with boxes, you could plot the corners of the boxes and then just draw a straight, confident line between them (with ghosting) until you feel more confident with controlling where the ends of your lines go?

    Keep it up!

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