Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:04 PM, Monday September 28th 2020

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Many thanks in advance to all of you that take a bit of time and effort to review my work.

Hope you appreciate and fire up on the spots I need to improve. Looking forward for your comments,

Idichekop

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9:40 PM, Thursday October 1st 2020

Hello, I'll take a look at your work.

The superimposed lines are fairly confident so that's good. I can tell you draw from the shoulder. However, the starting points are poorly defined. Always take your time to line up your start so that it emerges from a single point. Some of the lines also show signs of attempted adjusting as you go. Just focus on the end point and draw the stroke. If it doesn't quite hit it that's fine.

The ghosted lines look pretty good as are the planes.

Your ellipses are also good. Occasionally they wobble as you come around a turn. This will take time but as you practice you should be able to remove that wobble and nail a consistent stroke.

On some of your ellipses drawn onto the planes you forgot to draw through the ellipses. Keep drawing through in mind for the future. The funnels look good.

Moving onto the box related exercises, the rotated perspective has a curving issue. Many of the blocks at the edges aren't rotated as much as they should be. The goal is to have the shape look like it's about to become complete edge on to the viewer. But overall it looks good. For the organic perspective, some of your boxes don't shift in size appropriately. For instance there are occasionally big ones followed by small ones followed by big ones. We want to make it look like they're getting farther away.

Overall this was really good. You have confident lines and did well on most of the exercises.

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 Box Challenge to really practice drawing those boxes.

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9:21 PM, Tuesday October 6th 2020

Thank you very much RedArtist. Appreciate all the good on-the-spot tips and remarks.

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