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2:08 AM, Wednesday December 23rd 2020
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are looking good. You are keeping a cleary defined starting point with pretty minimal wavering throughout. Your ghosted lines and planes look great. You are using the ghosting method to great effect to get confident linework with a pretty high deal of accuracy. Nice job.
Your table of ellipses are not bad. You are doing a good job drawing through all of your ellipses but I still feel like you are deforming your ellipses at times. I'm seeing the same issue with your ellipses in planes and ellipses in funnels. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed I think this is likely happening because you are slowing down your stroke too much to compensate for accuracy. One of the reasons we use the ghosting method is to build up the muscle memory of the mark we are going to make before hand. This way when we do go to make our mark we can almost do it without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but will lead to a smoother overall ellipse shape which you are pretty consistently deforming currently. Once you can get those smooth ellipse shapes very consistently then you will naturally begin to get more accurate with mileage and consistent practice. Your ellipses in funnels are fine for the most part but are still suffering from that deformed shape in places.
The plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes turned out very well. You are doing a great job with confident linework here. You also did really well with extending the lines back on your boxes correctly to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but this will become more intuitive with practice.
Your rotated box exercise was a decent attempt! You are keeping up with that really good line quality and you did well with drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are still struggling with rotations which is perfectly fine given the difficulty of this exercise. In some cases even you weren't really rotating your boxes but were instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective like on the right side. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Your organic perspective exercise turned out pretty good for the most part. You seem to be getting very comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from the shoulder and your linework is looking great. Most of your box construction are pretty good but I am seeing some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a pretty solid submission. Keep working on those ellipses during your warmups. Otherwise, I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey pretty well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.
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