Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:17 PM, Friday March 6th 2020

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This is my first time doing Drawabox and despite it being hard I enjoyed it. Thanks in advance for any critiques

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3:43 PM, Monday March 9th 2020
edited at 3:48 PM, Mar 9th 2020

Good work, one thing that I could notice is that your lines tend to wobble/curve a little bit when dealing with the forms that are more compound (planes/boxes) in comparison to the singular (ghosting lines), try to focus on getting them straight and smooth, taking the time and treating each line of the compound as a single unit of effort. Other than that, I think you'll really benefit from going through the 250 boxes challenge (also keeping in mind that a box has 3 sets of lines, and each different set will converge to a vanishing point).

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250 Boxes Challenge.

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edited at 3:48 PM, Mar 9th 2020
10:09 AM, Wednesday March 11th 2020

Thanks for taking the time to critique my work. I'll work on the things you've mentioned.

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