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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:16 AM, Wednesday April 23rd 2025

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Hi hi hi! Tried these to the best of my ability I'm pretty sure. I also drew curved superimposed lines on a seperate page, but that page was filled with lame doodles, so I didn't end up submitting it. I also accidentally did 2 extra pages of ghosted planes through some strange circumstances, like basically I did a several month drawabox break, and while at school I didn't remember if I had or hadn't done any ghosted planes, so I did more than needed to continue with the course.

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4:13 AM, Saturday April 26th 2025

Hi Tacospin,

First off, congrats on submitting Lesson 1, this is a huge accomplishment. These are the fundamentals that all great art is based on, and you're doing a fantastic job choosing to pursue this.

Overall, this is a pretty good first try. I think you did a better job on your ellipses than I did my first attempt.

There are a few things here that I would like you to work on. Your ghosting method needs a little bit of work on a few of these, particularly the shorter strokes you used for your rough perspective boxes. I've got a feeling that you're using your "fingers" to do these, or not properly ghosting. Drawing from the "fingers" in this context meaning drawing in the style of handwriting, rather than from the wrist, elbow, or shoulder. I usually tell people that when I'm drawing I'm using my fingers exclusively to grip the pen, while the movement is handled by my wrist (finer details), elbow or shoulder (for larger strokes).

I'd like to see you redo two things for me to give you a passing grade. The first would be to redo the rotated boxes. I hate to tell people to redo this one, since I know it's a total nightmare to do. But I see what you did and it's a significant thing that I feel I would be doing you a disservice by allowing to slide.

https://i.imgur.com/1T4Jcvm.jpeg

Your boxes that sit beside the central box have bases (ie the face furthest from the viewer that are composed of lines that are either parallel, or even drifting apart in some cases. They should be converging, like in this image.

https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/5bda1f62.jpg

I would like you to redo this. I know it's a lot to ask, but it's important that rotation of boxes make sense to you before taking on the 150 box challenge.

Additionally, I'd like to see you redo a page of the organic perspective. There are two reasons for this. One is the misuse of foreshortening, the other is that your pages aren't very full, there just aren't many boxes to judge. I think some of your boxes in the distance of some of your panels are a bit too squished for the distance that they're at and would present themselves as more of a traditional box shape, and less compressed than they are, ie. the lines would converge less dramatically.

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Almost there

1 page Rotated Boxes

1 page Organic Perspective

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
12:10 AM, Monday April 28th 2025

Ask and you shall recieve! https://imgur.com/a/Vk6VxfD

I did the organic perspective first, focusing on drawing around 13-15 boxes per section instead of like 10-13 that i did for my first submission, also trying to forshorten less when the boxes were farther away. i have some problems with it but i would rather jump out of a window than draw it again without being told to do so. Then i did the rotated boxes, which I think look much better. I actually got more into the flow state in this one and tried to properly ghost with my shoulder for the smaller lines instead of using my fingers/wrist. I did also notice that my original submission was very square shaped so i tried to pay extra attention to how the corner boxes would affect the overall shape of the piece. Oh, and i tried to make the farther planes converge rather than go out parallel.

9:24 PM, Thursday May 8th 2025

Looks much better, good work! Onward you go!

Next Steps:

250 Boxes, good luck!

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