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10:12 AM, Wednesday July 14th 2021

  1. No, actually; I'm referring to their confidence, which is not to the same standard set in the planes exercise. If I had to guess, I’d say you drew these lines a little too fast, either because you didn’t ghost enough, or because you simply drew them at too high a speed.

  2. Correct. You’re aiming to suggest things to the viewer, rather than scream them at them – a superimposed line is enough for this purpose. Further, you want your work to be clean, rather than scratchy, so a single, confident line is the way to go.

2:16 PM, Tuesday July 27th 2021

Thanks a lot! In the end I decided to skip superimposing and instead do the shading of one of the closest faces.

I have a question regarding the 250 box exercise, I hope it's okay to ask here.

If I drew a box, and I messed up a line so that it's crooked and not angled to where I was "aiming", should I then draw the review line (red in my case) from the crooked line, or from where I was aiming?

I've been drawing them from where I was aiming since I want to check if I had the right idea to begin with but I'm not sure if that's correct.

4:58 PM, Tuesday July 27th 2021

It is - it's more valuable to check whether your planning was correct (though, ideally, this is not a distinction you'd have to make).

12:31 AM, Monday August 2nd 2021

Thanks for the help! And yes I agree, though unfortunately I'm still struggling a lot with getting lines right. Got a lot of boxes left to go though - hopefully I'm able to improve with time.

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