Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
1:26 PM, Saturday December 5th 2020
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4:56 PM, Saturday December 5th 2020
Hi Axel, I hope that my review can help you in your journey.
You really have a nice start with the course. I didn't found any big error to report, but i have some comments.
In the superimposed lines excercises you have some wobbling at the end of some lines, maybe because you rise your pen too early or care too much about not deviate the lines. Try to work on that in the warming of the 250 box challenge.
I think that you already have some background of drawing, because is hard to me to find some errors.
In the funnels excercise you have some trouble with the arcs of the begginnig, and that affected some of the elipses.
The organic perspective excersise has some troubles with the composition of the boxes, they are a little deformed, so, you need to think that is the same box that is moving through the space.
Is the same with the rotated boxes. When you are rotating it, seems to me that you don´t mantain the structure of the box.
I think that you have a really nice pulse and you can draw straight lines easily, but you fail a little with the perspectives excersices. The errors that i have commentted can be seen in the rough perspective excerisce. So, try to work on that in the 250 box challenge, I really suggest to use the web page that give you random boxes and perspectives to train that sanse.
Good luck and nice job :)
Next Steps:
Do the 250 boxes challenge and remember to give more attention to the perspective.
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