Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:02 PM, Monday June 22nd 2020

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So there it goes, the full lesson 1. About the exercise of rotated boxes, I tried at first to add thickness to the lines, but seeing the horrible monster I was creating, I decided to stop and leave "safe" the rest of the lines. If you think that something should be redone, please tell me.

Thanks for criticizing this!

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6:57 AM, Saturday June 27th 2020

Hi DCP,

Lines:

  • Your lines look confident and I can see you haven't gone over any to try to correct them/re-do them. This is good.

  • You're obviously plotting your lines (as opposed to just freehanding it) so keep this up and always remember to ghost the line.

  • I do see some slight arching of your lines in ghosted lines and ghosted planes -> make sure you are drawing from the shoulder to get a clean, confident straight line.

Ellipses

  • Your ellipses don't look as confident as your other lines -> perhaps try drawing through the ellipse 3 times at first to get comfortable with it, then restrict yourself to drawing through 2 times.

  • Once again make sure you're ghosting and drawing with your shoulder to get more confident ellipses.

  • For some general advice I recommend doing the funnels exercise as part of warmups as you progress with drawabox. You'll get better at these over time.

Boxes

  • In rotated boxes, some of your boxes could use some more rotation, but I can see you've applied this to most of them. Here's a reminder (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg)

  • There's some wobbly/arching lines in your boxes for rough perspective, yet in organic perspective your lines there look really nice and confident - try to apply this to any box you draw.

  • Your perspective on boxes has some mistakes, but that's normal - this is waht the 250 boxes challenge is for!

Next Steps:

I think you should move onto the 250 box challenge. This will give you some good practice in the things I mentioned above.

Good luck!

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9:07 AM, Sunday June 28th 2020

Thanks for the notes, I'll keep an eye on the marked things.

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