Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:04 AM, Friday July 1st 2022

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Hi, I forgot to take a pic of the ghosted planes before putting on the ellipses. Took me about a month to finish, thanks!

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3:31 PM, Sunday July 3rd 2022

Well done

-The ellipses are are little wobbly.

-Other than that i think you got the basics of exercise down.

Next Steps:

Go ahead woth 250 boxes

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3:58 AM, Monday July 4th 2022
edited at 4:20 AM, Jul 4th 2022

Thanks for the critique! I guess I should work on my ellipses. Anyways, could you go a little more in-depth?

edited at 4:20 AM, Jul 4th 2022
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8:00 PM, Monday July 11th 2022

Hi, I forgot to take a pic of the ghosted planes before putting on the ellipses. Took me about a month to finish, thanks!

No problem here.

Lines

Superimposed lines look confidently drawn. Ghosted lines are also confident and look well ghosted, some have slight changes in trajectory, I would say add a bit more speed when drawing them.

Ellipses

Ellipses look nice and confident, overall great confidence in your ellipses. Do ghost all your ellipses (from the shoulder) where you want to drawn them in until confident with the motion, then draw the ellipse in with the same speed and confidence you are currently using. The ghosting will take care of accuracy to you can focus on smooth ellipses. I can see you struggled with narrower ellipses, keep at them you will improve. Approach them as the others, ghosting etc. I see one ellipse thats drawn through 4 times. Remember you should draw through ellipses, a maximum of thrice and minimum twice. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/a76a8906.jpg. You only have one So assume you know but I am mentioning it just in case.

In the table of ellipses, ellipses should be touching, I see a few gaps between ellipses in yours.

In the funnels too ellipses should be touching.

Overall your ellipses show great confidence, just remember to ghost them ans use the same confidence you are using now.

Boxes

Plotted perspective looks good.

Rough perspective looks good. I see you are plotting your lines good job here.

Good attempt at the rotated boxes, here I would say copy the video lesson line for line a few times.

Organic perspective looks good.

You can move on to the 250 box challenge :)

remember to warmup

https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups

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2:27 AM, Tuesday July 12th 2022

Thanks, for the critique, I really appreciate it.

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