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12:32 AM, Thursday September 24th 2020
Good job on completing lesson 1! Looks good overall. Here is my feedback:
Lines (overall): Great job on starting each line at the first point. Noticed that your lines get a bit wobbly, mostly with curved lines. At this stage (level 1) you should want to be prioritizing confidence over accuracy, and draw smooth straight lines always. Once pen hits the paper after ghosting, you should be following your muscles, not your brain. Over time your lines and accuracy will improve with practice. Don't try to hide them with repeated lines. It's good to be able to see where you made mistakes so you can focus on correcting those mistakes, which will help you improve.
I'd recommend practicing superimposed curved lines as warm-up exercises every now and then, to help build confidence. Also try drawing larger planes as warm-up exercises as well, to get more practice in.
Ellipses: Good job drawing each ellipse 2-3 times, keep it up. You do a very good job keeping your ellipses lined up at a specific angle. Ellipses in funnels exercise looks like they are all symmetrical along the minor axis for the most part, so good job on that as well. A lot of your ellipses are fit snug within their boundaries and looking pretty tight, which is great. However a lot are also wobbly, which is not really what you want.
When you practice ellipses as warm-ups, try prioritizing confidence.
Boxes: Great job on boxes. Did a pretty good job keeping the appropriate lines parallel and perpendicular on the rough perspective exercise. Some boxes are missing their extension lines. Very good job on rotated boxes. Using nearby lines to help construct forms is a useful tool, so keep that exercise in your mind somewhere. (Some of the outer boxes are not drawn through, however. Drawing through your forms is a useful tool for understanding how the object sits in 3D space.) Great job on organic perspective as well.
Overall, good job. Main thing to work on is to prioritize confidence over accuracy.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge. Practice lesson 1 exercises as warm-ups (about 15 minutes) before each box drawing session. (Tip: plot and ghost each hatch line, it is pretty good ghosting practice and will help improve your linework.)
Ellipse Master Template
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.