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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:35 AM, Tuesday August 4th 2020

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Everything is there, and I did the exercises as I was reading along, so there are some experiences that are not ideal, but they were when I was drawing. An example is that I drew one of the "Superimposed Lines" from right to left, but later learned that I don't need to learn how to draw from the opposite side, since I can rotate the sheet.

The rotated boxes one got a little oval because the first rotated box I drew was a bit off and long, but I followed it with every other box around.

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6:23 AM, Monday August 17th 2020

Superimposed Line

They are good the only thing is there is a lack of confident in your lines you have to practice more that they should be smooth

Ghosted planes and ellipse

ghosted planes and ellipse are perfect and neat

tables of ellipse and funnel

they are super good ur ellipse are confident

plotted perspective

they are just perfect

Rough perspective

Likewise i said ur lines should be confident and smooth and u should draw them even more straight.

Rotated box

front face of the boxes are good u should work on ur back face of the boxes

organic perspective

ur boxes are good but u should differentiate them by decreasing their dimension when they are far way

u have to work on ur lines

1:56 PM, Tuesday August 18th 2020

Thank you! I'm almost finishing the 250 Box challenge now and noticed my lines got way better, but I still need to improve on them. Adding more "Line" exercises to my warmups right now.

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