Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:26 PM, Saturday August 8th 2020
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1:32 AM, Thursday September 10th 2020
Hi Christopher Beaven,
I've checked your submission,
I wanna start out by saying that by checking your website, It's weird for me to give you feedback, but I'm gonna make my best!
First of all, your lines. They start out great, though as you progress through the lesson, they get less confident. This is normal, since people put their focus on the box itself, they forget about the marks they are making. Always remember the golden rule for mark making in this course, Confidence>Accuracy, strive to make your lines look confident over anything else, accuracy comes with time and practice. And remember that confidence comes from the ghosting method, take your time.
Your ellipses look confident and pretty good, though remember to try to allign them to the minor axis and to not go through them more than two times, it will get messy.
Your perspective look good overall. I only see one issue in your organic boxes, in some cases your lines are not reaching the corners. This is a case of caring more about accuracy over confidence, which we have already discussed. It doesn't matter if you overshoot your lines, that will get better with time!
I'm gonna mark this lesson as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Now, you are supposed to just now move on to the 250 Box Challenge, though I see that you have already started it. It's not a really big deal in this stage of the course, but it's important later. Remember that the core thing about this course it's that another one can give you feedback with a new fresh perspective, so it's in your bests interests to wait for a review before moving on.
Plus, you now can review lesson 1 submissions! I really recommend this, since you learn so much from it, plus when doing it, not only you help the community, but you also make your submissions stay higher in the list of other submissions to get reviewed faster!
Good luck
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