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12:20 AM, Tuesday November 10th 2020
Lines
Your lines overall look good, I would want to point out that sometimes your lines get wobbly. I suppose you focused more on perspective than making good lines. Remember to do a one clean swoop, good linemaking is build upon teribble, BUT confident linemaking.
Ellipses
Your ellipses look okay, but I can see quite a lot of wobble in them. This is the result of you doing it too slowy and not in one fluid motion, but slowing midway through to be sure you didn't mess it up. It is especially visible in ghosted planes. Your ellipses get squarish, because you focused on hitting the edges of the box instead of making a nice ellipse. Please, don't do that. A proper ellipse is delivered in one fluid motion and it has smooth curvature. Don't be scared to fail, you are building your artistic skill upon a foundation of repetetive faliure.
Perspective
Perspective is good, I have few things to point out in rotated boxes exercise. First, you didn't rotate your boxes (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating). Second you forgot to add boxes on the corners of box sphere.
This is just a guess, but it seems you sometimes press your pen too hard against the paper. In ellipse tables the lines you make are really thick compared to other of your work, remember to not put too much pressure on the pen as it can shorten its lifespan and if you hold your pen very hard and stiff it can make your lines wobbly.
Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
10:12 AM, Tuesday November 10th 2020
Wow, thank you for such quick and detailed answear. I very much appreciate it.
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Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).