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11:35 AM, Wednesday January 6th 2021
Starting with the superimposed lines, the lines have a bit of a wobble. This is only natural since you're just starting out. Your starting point is clearly defined and that's something to appreciate. Next come the ghosted lines: the tiny lines you've marked on some of the line look you're repeating lines, know that even if your lines are not accurate at the end; pretend they are and move on. This appears again in the ghosted planes. You seem to be a little too concerned with accuracy, since your lines wobble a tad, even in the ghosted planes. My advice on this is to just ghost and build muscle memory, then put your pen to the page and repeat it just how you've ghosted. Here's the section on wobbling: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling
Remember: confidence over accuracy.
About the ellipses in planes, you're too concerned with touching each edge. This results in deformed ellipses. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed Then again, confidence over accuracy. Concentrate on the flow of it rather than the accuracy. Trust your muscle memory is most of what I'm getting at. In the ellipse tables, while you're keeping the ellipses within bounds, you're again prioritizing accuracy. Your funnels don't look smooth, nor do the ellipses in them. The ellipses are misaligned a bit and poorly spaced in the top right corner. Please be more confident with your mark making. The arcs of the funnels need to be more curved and smooth. The ellipses must be cut in two symmetrical halves. You'll be required to redo the funnels. I think you've misunderstood the concept.
The plotted perspective is fine, although you did put them a little out of the arc of vision in the second table.Don't do this since it gets distorted. The rough perspective is pretty good, but the line work wobbles, yet again. Remember that in every exercise that you can, you must ghost your lines. This applies even in the rotated boxes. Your rotated boxes are actually very good except for the line work. You seem to be focusing more on the tougher things. Resolve the smaller problems and then move on to the bigger ones. The organic perspective is fine. Your convergences will improve in the 250 boxes. Also, it's nice that you kept the rotated boxes big, this helps resolve issues better.
Do ellipses in planes as your warm up, this will help your line work and ellipses. Also do the funnels exercise with the planes and upload the funnels.
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Do ellipses in planes as your warmup, this will help your line work and ellipses. Also do the funnels exercise with the planes and upload the funnels. I'll mark the lesson as complete after you upload this. Good luck on your drawing journey ahead:)!!!
5:52 AM, Sunday November 28th 2021
Hey, been a while!
Thanks for your advice. I've certainly lost some amount of skill over my long break, but I've had another go at those funnels, and tried to get some more confidence in my ellipses. My spacing has deteriated since my first attempt, but I think the ellipses themselves are starting to look better.
What are your thoughts?
1:05 PM, Thursday December 2nd 2021
Hey! I see that you've stopped slowing down while executing your lines. You've improved, just keep at your warm ups and have fun with the next lesson!
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Move on to Lesson 2!
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