Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:31 PM, Thursday March 26th 2020

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Hey,

The organic boxes have definitely come out a bit wonky.

Thank you in advance for reviewing.

Hope everyones safe and healthy. Have a good day ahead!

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5:52 AM, Wednesday April 1st 2020

Hiya! I’ll be looking through this~

Starting off, your lines look great! I notice that the superimposed lines don’t always end at the correct place, so be a tiny bit more mindful of that. The ghosted lines tend to start off a little wobbly, then stabilize, so be careful that you’re not taking so long to line up your pen that you sacrifice your built up rhythm. Compared to these two, the ghosted planes are a liiitle sloppier, but that’s alright. In general, I’d recommend upping your ghosting time. It should improve your accuracy, i.e. make you send the line off in the correct direction, and not overshoot. Be sure to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines all of the times, too- not just sometimes!

Moving on to the ellipse section- it’s fantastic! The ellipse section is, at least in my opinion, the hardest part of this lesson, and arguably this entire course, so I’m especially proud of your performance here. If I had to point out one thing it’d be the degrees of your ellipses in the funnels exercise. They should either remain consistent, or increase, not decrease.

Finally, the box section is really nicely done, too. I do notice a dip in line quality on some of the harder exercises, though (namely: rough perspective, organic perspective and ro- wait, where’s the rotated boxes exercise?!) Try to remember that, despite the big picture, all we’re doing is drawing lines. If your lines can be confident in the ghosted lines exercise, they can be confident here, too. Also, be mindful that automatic reinforcing, that is, correcting an incorrect line, is discouraged. If a line is wrong, it’s wrong.

Anyway, congrats on completing this lesson! I’ll be happy to pass you onto the box challenge...

Next Steps:

...just as soon as I see that rotated boxes exercise. xD

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7:59 AM, Wednesday April 1st 2020
edited at 8:01 AM, Apr 1st 2020

Thank you so much for the critique. I'll keep in mind the lines.

It seems I missed the rotated box image while selecting the images. You can find it here

Sorry about that.

Have a good day ahead!

edited at 8:01 AM, Apr 1st 2020
8:16 AM, Wednesday April 1st 2020

Nicely done~ Consider this lesson complete~

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge

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