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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:56 PM, Wednesday April 29th 2020

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Hey Everyone!

This is my homework for the first lesson. Phew, I did suffer a bit I must admit. Some exercises I did do twice (instead of the suggest 1 page). Sometimes because I did not pay attention. Sometimes because I could not fit a lot of stuff on a single page.

I think the thing I struggle with the most is the the angle from which I need to draw from my shoulder. I notice that it depends a lot on how far I need to hold the pen out from my body. I practiced the most when I held it close to my body, but that did not work so great in certain situations (paper sometimes collides with my body). So I guess I need to practice as well from a more convenient distance.

If you could offer any advice that would be great.

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3:42 PM, Wednesday April 29th 2020

superimposed lines - Great! starts at the same point and your lines look confident (smooth)

Ghosted lines - honestly really really awesome, way better than mine, I feel like I shouldn't even be critiqueing this

Ghosted planes - This isn't even a critique, but just FWIW, i noticed that you did something similar to me on this homework. Your lines looked AWESOME on the ghosted lines but when you moved to planes they started to overshoot a bit more. Something about having it be more than just a line puts on the pressure maybe and causes mistakes? Be confident, keep ghosting until you are stopping on your point and then smoothly draw the line in rhythm. Ellipses look really good!

Table of ellipses - I wouldn't re-do it, but try and focus on hitting the top and bottom with your ellipses. I pretty much only noticed this on the upper left exercise of table B

Rough perspective - looks to be expected! Keep being patient with those lines :)

Rotated boxes - I thin kyou got the point and goal of this exercise. nice work!

For organic perspective I'm honestly not sure what he is looking for out of it, but your boxes are believable. When I look at them it looks like boxes that are moving through 3d space!

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5:42 AM, Thursday April 30th 2020

Thank you so much for you elaborate feedback!!! I really appreciate it!

Ghosted planes

Will definitely look into the overshooting, have noticed that as well. Love the tip, will definitely use it. :)

Table of ellipses

100% agree, I might actually have found this one of the more difficult exercises. Will try to put focus on hitting the top and bottoms.

Again thank you so much!

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