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7:34 AM, Monday October 3rd 2022

Superimposed Lines

  • You took good care of starting all the lines at the precise same point. Perfect!

Ghosted Lines

  • There's a good couple of lines that are wobbly. Try speeding up drawing your lines, it will help avoid that. The ghosting exercise helps you gain the confidence to execute fast.

Ghosted Planes

  • Very good. All the wobble is pretty much gone already, quick growth. The accuracy is still off, but that wasn't the point of this exercise anyway- you made the right decision to focus on confidence instead.

Tables of Ellipses

  • Well done, 2-loops on each ellipse, and all the angles are in roughly the same direction.

  • Not to mention, most ellipses fit snugly in their boxes!

Ellipses in Planes

  • Very solidly done.

Funnels

  • Idem dito.

Plotted Perspective

  • No mistakes.

  • Good job on the hatching as well, you have a good sense of how perspective works.

Rough Perspective

  • Started out with some wobbles, perhaps your confidence dropped a bit when starting this exercise? But by the last few panels all that is smooth and straight again.

Rotated Boxes

  • You definitely have the right idea on how to rotate cubes based on the position of the cubes relative to them.

Organic Perspective

  • Looks good, all the boxes are in roughly the right perspective, there's some good creativity in their angles as well.

Overall

Well, that actually is a really solid lesson 1! I feel like I have to offer you critique, but I have mostly compliments. You passed "level 1" with flying colours, but there is still "level 2" and "level 3" to work on. See: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/10/levels

You followed the exercises very well and focused on all the right things, but you will want to work on your accuracy still. (That's something that comes over time and with practice, of course).

For straight lines, you have a tendency to overshoot. Try lifting your pen off of the paper at the right time, instead of trying to "stop" the pen. See: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/10/lifthand

Similarly for ellipses, some of the overlapping ellipses still go in different directions. If you aren't doing it already, mentally try to superimpose your ellipse completely before starting the practice ghosting. Ellipses have very distinct shapes, but you're good enough to get the hang of that.

As for the boxes, this is where you suddenly start doing do-overs on your own lines. Ideally you want to be more patient instead. Having to do over a line means you didn't put enough time into the ghosting exercise, to be specific step 1: planning. See: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/10/planning

All in all though, save that critique for when you start using these exercises to warm up. You're totally ready to move on to the next lesson, if you haven't already. Good job :)

Next Steps:

250 Boxes up next. Muscle memory!

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3:51 PM, Monday October 3rd 2022

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