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3:53 PM, Saturday April 23rd 2022
Good job on completing Lesson 1! I'll review your work and see if you need to improve on anything.
I see on your Superimposed Lines that there's some fraying on both ends of your lines. Make sure you take the time to reposition your pen after every line you draw. There's also wobbling and arch in your lines that remains in your lines till the organic perspective, but the confidence and accuracy in your lines will improve with more practice. Make sure to arch your lines the other way if your lines continue to curve one way. Also, this is not a DAB exercise, but I want you to take a piece of paper and just start drawing random lines - but, make sure to always use your shoulder, to feel the flow, and to draw confidently.
On Tables of Ellipses, your ellipses are (mostly) confident. However, they are not tightly packed together at times, some are wobbly (because you may be using your wrist) and some of the ellipses are of the same degree(width). Make sure that in each box the ellipses are of the same degree, and are tighly packed. Your did a better job with the tightness and increasing degree of the elippses in the funnel exercise.
You did a good job on Rough Perspective by keeping the horizontal lines parallel and vertical lines perpendicular to the horizon. You made a solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise, but your boxes should be more closesly packed together, and they are not rotating (make sure the lines converge more as they rotate and are futher away from the middle box).
In the organic perspective exercise, you made sure the boxes get larger as they come closer to the viewer. I feel you could have done a better job on letting your boxes overlap and exaggerating the scale of the boxes that are up close. These things really sell that there is a sense of depth in the drawing. Some of your boxes are not looking like boxes, some are too long in one dimension - I want you to draw the same-sized box, and to visualize the box before you put pen to paper.
Overall, I'd heavily reccomend that before you do the 250 box challenge, you should:
1) redo the Rotated box exercise and the Organic Box exercise.
2) make sure that you do not scratch out any lines you've put to paper
3) and to practice drawing from your shoulder, via the mothod I outlined or via the DAB exercises
Good work and good luck for the 250 box challenge!
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7:31 AM, Monday April 25th 2022
Thank you so much! I'm gonna follow your recomendations.
8:38 AM, Sunday May 15th 2022
I made another review post with the exercised you advised to redo : https://drawabox.com/community/submission/S0K9GZ3G
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