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5:52 PM, Saturday April 1st 2023

Hello RANDYC, congratulations on completing lesson one.

Now lets have a look at your attempt.

Lines:

Your superimposed lines are confident, they have little to no fraying at the starting point, the fraying at the end point is not scattered as well so that is a great start, though I can see a little bit of wobble and an arch in some of the lines but they seems to be minimum and they will certainly improve with regular practice.

Your ghosted lines are confident as well and are reaching their end point with good accuracy as well so another good attempt.

Your ghosted planes seems to have simlar confident strokes, you have plotted the points for ghosting as well which is another good point.

So as far as the lines segment goes, you have little to no wobbly lines, the fraying on superimposed lines are also under acceptable terms, the arching of line is minimum, you have ploted the points or dots for ghosting lines, which is a great thing for lines.

Ellipses:

In your table of ellipses, the ellipses are drawn with confident strokes and you have gone through them atleast twice for most of them, do remember no matter how small or big the ellipse is, go through them at least twice. Further each ellipse should be within bounds, that is they should be touching their adjacent boundaries or ellipses, and not overlap them or be too loose and have gaps between them. It is really hard at first to achieve such accuracy, you have most of the ellipses in bound but a fair share is little loose. Do not worry about it for now, regular deliberate practice will improve the accuracy in long run.

Same goes for your ellipses in planes.

As well as for the funnels exercise, though remember that the minor axis(the central line) is supposed to bisect the ellipses into two equal parts, some of them are doing it greatly, others not so much, still no worries as the accuracy part will be improved with practice as well.

So, as far as the Ellipses segment goes, most of your ellipses are confident and have been drawn through at least twice, which we are aiming for at the moment.

Boxes:

The boxes are difficult at first, so again kudos for attending them nonetheless.

Your plotted perspective is done really nicely.

In your rough perspective you have taken good care to keep the width parallel to the horizon and the height perpendicular, though while executing the lines we can see little bit of shaking here and there, but apart from that, it was a good attempt. Accuracy and others will improve over time.

Your rotated boxes, it turned out pretty well. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow. While the rotations here aren't perfect still this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons or the boxes challenge to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

And finally the organic perspective, as mentioned earlier, you have good confident strokes, and you have added the line weight as well! As for perspective, it will improve over time as well.

So overall, It was a good attempt.

Next Steps:

Congratulations, now you can move towards the crucible, the 250 box challenge.

Some points before moving on:

  • Do regular warmups, they do wonders, even if you think you won't be able to draw much, then also try to squeeze atleast five minutes per day for warmup.

  • Do not hesitate to revisit lesson zero, or the lesson texts and videos if you have questions or want to recall about the exercises and warmups.

  • Do follow the fifty percent rule, you might enjoy it or you might not even feel like doing it but do it nonetheless.

  • Do not isolate, regularly post your updates in the 'basic challenges' section or the appropriate lesson channels on discord to get feedback on the work in progress.

  • And to take care of your health and sleep.

With that said, my best wishes for your future endeavours, have great time.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
10:21 PM, Tuesday April 4th 2023

Thank you very much for your time and feedback. I really appriciate it.

10:05 AM, Wednesday April 5th 2023

My pleasure, also again, do not forget your fifty percent rule. :muscle:

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