Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:44 PM, Tuesday May 26th 2020
hey guys! it would be great if anyone could critique my work. thanks!
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9:13 AM, Thursday May 28th 2020
Hi, I'd like to critique your work here.
Your superimposed lines show a lot of fraying throughout. However this should improve with time. I would suggest doing some as a warm-up before you draw every day. Your ghosted lines look good though.
Your planes and elipses also look good, my only comment here would be that some of your elipses look like you are going over the elipse more than 3 times which is discouraged. You should be able to get the right shape in 2-3 lines. However most of them look good. So I am not worried here.
On the organic perspective page, some of your lines are extending past your corners but most of them are okay. One thing you can do to help with this is plane out the line by placing a dot where you want it to end then remember to use ghosting when drawing the line.
Overall I think it looks good though. I think you are ready to move on to 250 boxes, so I will mark the lesson as complete.
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Move on to 250 boxes!
1:59 AM, Friday May 29th 2020
Thank you so much for the critique!
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