Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:34 AM, Tuesday September 22nd 2020

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First time using Imgur so if the images don't show up let me know and I'll post the album to the community instead of using the share link.

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1:36 PM, Tuesday September 29th 2020

Hello Deserthobo,

The album works fine

Lines

Superimposed lines are a bit wobbly and some arching as well, also remember to place your pen carefully at the begining of each line https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/1585f266.jpg

Ghosted lines are better, they still wobble but much less and the enfasis on confidance is notisable.

Elpises

The lines that make up your plane lost the confidance the ghosted lines had, it seems you focused more on accuracy than fluidity. Remember it doesnt matter if you over or under shoot your line as long as you are confident about it. The elipses on the other hand seem pretty confidant, in some of them you do still focus too much on touching the edges and make the elipses look more suare like, avoid this.

Table looks good, remember to ghost your elipses.

Realy like the funnels, you kept the elipses aligned as well as mantaining fluidity on your lines, good job.

Boxes

Rotated boxes look very nice there is some minor miss alignment on some corners but over all a really good attempt.

Organic perspective is also very nice.

Conclusion

Over all a really good lesson one, main thing i notices is you tend to sacrifice confidance over accuracy when dealing with solid shapes, like boxes or squares, keep this in mind moving forward and remember that over or undershooting is not an issua and confidance should come fist, accuracy will develop with time.

Next Steps:

Forward to 250 Box challenge, good luck and dont burn out. Remember 50 50 rule :)

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5:35 AM, Monday October 5th 2020

Thanks for the critique! I'll be sure to draw the shapes with more confidence.

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6:50 PM, Wednesday September 23rd 2020

Hey! the images don't show up

6:10 AM, Saturday September 26th 2020

Hello! Maybe try again? I've sent the link to my friends who don't have imgur and they could see it fine. The people on reddit could also see it so maybe you should try refreshing I really don't know what is happening.

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