Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:03 AM, Thursday July 21st 2022

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3:26 AM, Thursday July 21st 2022

Lines

Superimposed lines look nice and confident. When drawing the lines after ghosting , place the fineliner at the start of the line then draw in the line to create a consistent starting point. The ghosted lines look confident for the most part I can see a bit of wobble towards the ends, I assume you are slowing down when approaching the end. You can rather maintain the same speed but lift your pen off the page when at the end dot. Its worth a try. Lines of the ghosted planes look okay.

Ellipses

Some of the ellipses are confident but not all. It looks like you drew some slowly to make them accurate. The drawing slowly has resulted in those points and bumps on the ellipses circumference especially in the ellipses in planes exercise. You should instead ghost the ellipse where you want to place it until you are confident with the motion. Then once confident , draw in the ellipse with speed. The ghosting will take care of accuracy to you can draw smooth ellipses.

Boxes

plotted perspective looks okay. Good attempt at the rough perspective exercise, I can see you are plotting and planning your lines , good job. do remember in rough perspective that the vertical lines of the boxes are perpendicular to the horizon and the horizontal lines of the boxes are parallel to the horizon.

In the rotated boxes exercise I can see you are thinking of rotating the boxes in space and applying it. Copying the video lesson line for line can help you catch things you missed.

The organic perspective exercise is also good.

I think you can move on to the 250 box challenge, Good luck:)

remember to warmup https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups

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4:47 AM, Thursday July 21st 2022

Thank you! Good feedback, and very fast too.

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