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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:31 PM, Monday December 27th 2021

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Hi everyone! So... i finished all lesson 1 homework, took me more than 1 month to do everything from scratch. It's hard and i feel so frustrated all the time. So any feedback/criticism you guys gave me is very very much appreciated ?(?)?

(I have to use ballpoint pen for most of this lesson because they can't ship stuff in pandemic though, sorry about that)

Thanks in advance!

*(And um yeah.. (late) merry x-mas and happy new year to everyone!!

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10:05 PM, Monday December 27th 2021

Hello there congrats on finishing lesson one

Lines

Superimposes lines look confident. The ghosted lines too are confident overall, some have slight changes in trajectory but the lines in the ghosted planes are overall straight. Ghosted planes lines are confident and show improvement from the ghosted lines. Really good actually.

Ellipses

Ellipses look nice and confident. The table of ellipses is good, so it the funnels exercise and ellipses in planes. great work here.

Boxes

Plotted perspective looks solid, and so does the rough perspective exercise. Keep in mind that the vertical lines of the boxes are perpendicular to the horizon and the horizontal lines of the boxes are paralell to the horizon. This is a tip to help you plot your points.

Good work with the rotated boxes, nice size of boxes and they rotate.

https://imgur.com/a/G7g6EYa

Great work on the organic perspective.

Overall really great here, I can tell you took your time which is great , you learn the concepts better, of course without grinding.

You can head over to the 250 box challenge, remember to use lesson one exercises as warmups and revisiting lessons is a good idea

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250 box challenge

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12:30 PM, Tuesday December 28th 2021

Hello! Thank you so much for taking your time! Very appreciated it.

I'll keep in mind the errors that you pointed out. Especially the rotated boxes part (when i finished i thought it look weird and idk why XD)

And may i ask about the "use lesson 1 excercises as warm-ups" part? Like, there's 3 sections, should i do that from the beginning (super-imposed line) to the end (organic perspective), or i just pick section randomly?

I usually do 30' human gestures as warm-ups before drawing, should i uhhh change that? to do purely drawabox exercises as warm-ups? Will it affect my progress? ~~Am i overthinking too much? ~~

3:19 PM, Tuesday December 28th 2021

For the warm-ups you take 2 or 3 at random. And do them for 10 to 15 minutes(not 10 to 15 minutes each, like maybe 5 minutes each etc) . Each time trying to improve on your past mistakes and such. You should approach them as exercises (something I had to learn) an not drawings, so you are improving on the criteria of the exercise. So revisiting the lesson helps as you can see the criteria and improve. Going on treat them as exercises with a criteria.

Your rotated boxes were pretty good, just some errors I noticed, looking revisit the lesson will probably reveal more. But don't worry just keep working on them,in no time you'll be better.

As for warmups, these are when you are about to do the drawabox exercises. As in the 250 box challenge or the future lessons. I think you should just do these warmups when doing drawabox then the figure ones in your 50% side out of drawabox

Good luck :)

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