Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

11:44 PM, Wednesday June 17th 2020

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12:58 PM, Thursday June 18th 2020

Hello!

I am not a native speaker, so I want to apologize for any weird sounding sentences in advance.

Feedback:

Your superimposed lines show none of the mistakes mentioned in the instruction, so well done! They are executed with great confidence and with little wobble. Only the long straight lines have some greater divergence between the individual marks, which is somewhat expected.

The ghosted lines look quite straight and fairly accurate. I think you could have varied their size more, but that's rather something to keep in mind for future warm-up exercises and doesn't warrant any real criticism in my opinion.

The confidence you showed with the ghosted lines are reflected in your planes as well: They look solid, are mostly closed and the lines again look very accurate. Well done!

I like your ellipses in all of the exercises: They are neatly fitted into their space, are mostly ellipse shaped (in contrast to egg-shaped) and are overall executed very well and with little jitter. Well done!

Plotted perspective looks fine and well executed!

With the rough perspective, I got the impression that you already learned a bit by doing the exercise since the extended lines on the second page fall closer to the vanishing point than on the first page. If so, I find that quite impressive for this little amount of exercise! Nice!

The rotated boxes impressed me quite a bit (party, because I failed miserably at that point). Your boxes here are very neatly placed beside each other and it looks very three-dimensional! I would only complain a little bit about the tight hatching lines that hide a bit of the line work and are a bit distracting. Otherwise: Really nice!

With the organic perspective however, I wondered if you still kept ghosting every line and I noticed some lines that you obviously corrected. While I think that you conceptually grasped the exercise and executed it overall well, I got the feeling that you might have become a bit impatient at that stage. Since you clearly understood the instructions that were relevant for this specific task, I would not want you to redo it. But I really urge you to incorporate the ghosting method into your DaB routine again and to train yourself to plan out every single line beforehand, than execute it with all the confidence you built up doing so. Execute each line only once and accept the outcome. I think, the 250 boxes challenge gives plenty of opportunities to train exactly that ;)

I think you are on a good way and I hope my feedback was somewhat useful to you.

Kind regards,

Jack

Next Steps:

I think you are ready for the 250 boxes challenge! Just remember to stick to the ghosting method and you are good to go!

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10:13 PM, Thursday June 18th 2020

Thanks for the insight and kind words, Jack. :)

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7:00 PM, Saturday June 20th 2020

Your work is overall pretty good. Your lines are a bit shaky since you aren't used with drawing with the shoulder but on the organic boxes lesson I can see your improvement.

Next Steps:

Do the 250 Box challenge so you can improve even more.

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4:31 PM, Sunday June 21st 2020

Thanks for the words. Appreciate you taking a moment to check out the work.

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