Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:25 PM, Sunday May 24th 2020

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I started the lessons some time ago (maybe around past autumn), but I didn't submit anything for review. I have recently joined the Patreon and decided to also do things the right way and post the homework :)

Some (I think most) of them have been redone so these actually show my current levels.

Looking forward!

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10:01 PM, Sunday May 24th 2020

Hi! Nice lines dude, great work.

I'll recommend you to ghost more your lines in the boxes exercises, somes lines look woobly.

In the organic perspective excercise try to do smaller and bigger boxes so we can tell wich boxes are far away or near us (the are some boxes that are almost equal in size through the guideline)

Good luck!

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Move on the next lesson but always being aware of ghost lines!

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10:05 PM, Sunday May 24th 2020

With next lesson I mean 250 boxes challenge haha :)

6:02 PM, Monday May 25th 2020

I actually already did it... I will redo maybe 50 after all the feedback... redoing all 250 might be too much...

5:31 PM, Monday May 25th 2020

Thanks for the feedback!

That's true, I didn't do the small to large scaling of the boxes in that one.

I did notice the wobbliness and I wonder if it's because of how I'm doing the strokes. When I'm ghosting I just don't see enough consistency. It might be because I'm not yet comfortable with drawing from my shoulder, and I think I do elbow strokes sometimes (maybe a mix which results in wobbly lines). Also, I'm not sure if it's bad habit or not to keep the pinkie on the paper to have some stability :) Maybe I'll ask this as a separate topic (and also search for an existing similar question).

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