Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

5:57 PM, Sunday July 5th 2020

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Hi there! Would love to hear any critiques and/or feedback :) Thank you in advance!! Have a joyous day!

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7:17 PM, Sunday July 5th 2020

These are well done. The lines you've created were very clean and confident. It looks like you only need some small tweaks and adjustments on your 3 point perspective boxes. The 250 boxes challenge would most likely help you understand how to draw them though. My one issue in your work is your funnels exercise. You need to have the center of the funnel have the ellipse with the smallest degree and the ellipses near the ends of the funnels have the largest degree.

You should be using the exercises you've learned in this lesson as your warm-ups from now on so that you're able to keep the fundamentals in mind. After this lesson the next step would be the 250 boxes challenge.

Good work, keep at it!

Next Steps:

I would redo the funnels exercise with the tips that I gave in mind. Then I would say that you've finally completed this lesson.

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6:39 PM, Monday July 6th 2020

Ah, I see what you meant! I went ahead and redid the funnels exercise (https://imgur.com/eCf7e6b). Thank you very much for your feedback! I appreciate and value your time!

10:32 PM, Monday July 6th 2020

Yes, good work but remember confident lines. some of your ellipse lacked some of that.

Next Steps:

Good luck on the 250 box challenge.

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7:31 PM, Sunday July 5th 2020

I would add, try as much as possible to draw your lines only once, instead of passing over them several times. If your goal is to thicken the outer lines of your volumes, try to merge the subsequent lines better with the first one, otherwise it will end up looking messy. Good work overall! :)

6:41 PM, Monday July 6th 2020

Thank you for the advice and feedback! Definitely will work on trying to draw my lines only once going forward! I appreciate and value your time!

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