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5:12 AM, Monday January 31st 2022
Hey, good job on completing Lesson 1! I'm sure it took a while to complete so I'll try to help you out by looking over your homework and seeing what you can improve.
Lines: Superimposed Lines look pretty good. There is some fraying on the end of your lines, but that's normal and you'll improve with more practice. With Ghosted Lines, it looks like you had some wobbly lines. Always prioritize confident lines over accuracy and take your time when ghosting each line. Ghosted Planes actually look pretty good. Good job!
Ellipses: With ellipses, again same thing with the lines, you want to be prioritizing confidence and smoothness over accuracy. Make sure to practice Tables of Ellipses when you do warm ups. On Ellipses in Planes, your ellipses are deformed and are sort of egg shaped, and this is usually because you're deforming it to hit all sides of the plane. Instead, trying drawing the ellipse at an angle inside the plane so that it hits all four sides without deforming the ellipse. Your Funnels homework looks pretty good. I suggest when you practice this exercise later on you should try to get the degree of the ellipses to slowly increase while moving out of the funnel. This is done by starting narrow in the middle of your funnel and slowly making the ellipses more and more circular as you move outwards.
Boxes: On rough perspective you followed the instructions pretty well, but a lot of your lines are really wobbly. Make sure to take your time when ghosting and make confident strokes. With rotated boxes, I feel like you really struggled with actually rotating the boxes, but I'll cut you some slack because it's a really difficult exercise and you're not expected to do great the first time. I will recommend that you come back to this exercise every now and then when doing warm ups. On organic perspective, you did pretty well. There are some perspective errors, but same thing with rotated boxes, I won't critique you too harshly.
I highly suggest that you practice the ellipses and boxes exercises as warm ups. Even though you had some mistakes when making boxes, you should improve when you work on the 250 Box Challenge. I wish you good luck on future homework assignments you do on Drawabox!
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Box Challenge.
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