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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:42 PM, Saturday August 1st 2020

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Hello! First of all, english isn't my first language so I'm sorry if my writing is a little bit strange (I haven't written in english for a very long time now) I finished the first lesson, and I would like some feedback!

I did have some issued on the organic perspective exercise: I tried doing the boxes as it's stated in the homework section, doing first the Y shape, then adding the lines that will eventually converge towards the VP, but I think that I sometimes drew those lines too long, so when I finished with the lines that closed the box, well, the shape ended up a bit weird. And as for the rotated boxes one, there were so many lines that I had some troubles doing the boxes placed on the corners.

Anyways, thank you in advance!

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2:34 PM, Saturday August 1st 2020

Hi!

Here is my critique.

  1. Ghosted plane and ellipse in planes looks fine. Since you are showing four differente pages of this it is clear that you grinded and that is not recommended. The instruction was to draw ellipse inside the plane you already drawn.

  2. In rotating boxes there some boxes that are not really rotating.

    https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating

  3. Don't worry too much about the difficulties in organic perspective, since you will be drawing boxes for a while.

  4. In the superimposed lines sometimes there is fraying in both ends. This is due for lack of attention when practicing the lines.

Great work!!!

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9:00 PM, Saturday August 1st 2020

Hello!

As for the ghosted planes and ellipse in planes: I actually did follow the instructions, I just took a photo of the 2 pages of the ghosted planes before and after I drew the ellipses in them! And as for the other things you pointed out: I will definetly keep them in mind for the next time, thank you!!

10:23 PM, Saturday August 1st 2020

Sorry for accusing you of grinding! haha

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