Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:02 PM, Sunday January 16th 2022
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5:00 AM, Monday January 17th 2022
Good job on Lesson 1!
Lines
Good job on the lines! The biggest issue is that the superimposed lines are pretty wobbly at parts, but your other ghosted lines look fine, so I'm not sure that's much of an issue anymore. Overall, not much wrong here.
Ellipses
These are pretty solid, too. You have some accuracy issues, but it's pretty much at the level that you'd expect for a first attempt. Actually, your accuracy is better than mine, I'll admit that. A couple of your ellipses on the funnel exercise look a little diagonal, though. Make sure you're not drawing them at an angle.
Boxes
On the plotted perspective exercise, you seem to have put some of the boxes too far outside of the circle that the vanishing points form: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/202962fd.jpg. Otherwise, you did very good at this one as well. Your lines get a bit wobbly on the early boxes, but you seem to already be improving there.
Overall, this is really good. There's not much to critique here, as far as I can see.
Next Steps:
Do the 250 Box Challenge
12:29 PM, Monday January 17th 2022
Thanks! I've noticed that after pauses i come back to drawing wobbly lines, so now I do a bit of "warm up ghosting" (drawing a line 10-20 times) before doing it again.
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