Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:35 PM, Wednesday March 31st 2021

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any and all help welcome, thanks

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9:00 PM, Thursday April 1st 2021

Hi!

Lines

Superimposed lines: Good, the lines mostly stay on track and don't deviate from the path and the curves also look nice.

Ghosted Lines and planes: Make sure to take your time and place your pen on the right place before drawing the line, some of them kinda before the intial dot. I see that especially in the planes you're having trouble with overshooting, for that matter try doubling down on your ghosting method and lift your pen out of the page ass soon as you the endpoint. For some lines there's a tiny little curvature on the begining, sometimes that's the result of holding the pen too tightly, relax your hand and try to hold the pen as lightly as possible, that will help you with your execution, the less tension the better. But it's overall nice, keep it improving.

Ellipses

Tables: Overall good job, there are some overlaps here and there but you grasped the exercise and it shows you strived to keep it consistent and smooth.

Funnels: The minor axis line should cut the ellipses in two equal halves, when said line is not placed correctly it is hard to follow that rule. You're allowed to use rulers for this exercise as the point here is to get used to the minor axis as much as fitting the ellipses in a tight space.

Boxes

This is the hard part of the lesson, mostly to test the waters and start to understand the concept of 3D space. I see that you tried to correct some lines in your boxes, dont do that, keep the mistakes there so you can see them clearly to tackle where you can improve. Boxes are harder in that sense because the set of lines need to make sense within each other therefore there is way more room for hesitation, but that's perfectly fine, double down on ghosting the lines if needed to help with your confidence, take your time and don't rush. For the rough perspective it is better to do the correction method with a different color to help you better differentiate the lines however it is not the most important thing. In the rotated boxes, remember to keep the edges close to each other in order to avoid huge gaps of space in between them making hte perspective more off the grid. The organic perspective looks good, it can always be better but dont worry as in your next step is the 250 box challenge

Final thoughts

You got the main gist of the lesson it shows on your submission that you understood what was being asked. Keep striving to hit better smoothnes with your lines by using the ghost method and drawing with your shoulder. Good luck on the next lesson!

Next Steps:

Next stop is the 250 box challenge! Good luck and feel free to join the discord server for more quick feedback!

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11:37 PM, Sunday April 4th 2021

Thank you so much for your help, the information you provided is very helpful. I will do a few more excersises of the ghosted lines to practice my endpoints and the curvatures like you mentioned at the beginning- I was getting frustrated but this time I will try to loosen my grip. Again thank you very much for your feedback!

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