Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:24 AM, Friday November 19th 2021

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finally finished the lesson 1 i took me a bit since i had to balance this with my work but i managed. I think i did ok for most of the exercises but i think others may decide otherwise, though i did come across with dificulties in some of the exercises that is in the funnels exercise i struggled with drawing thin ellipses because that small degree of motion is something im bad at, though i could draw it better using only my wrist but i dont know if i should do that so i didnt. In the rough perspective excercises i find it hard to keep the lines to converge to one point and i often miss the mark by a huge margin. The rotated boxes exercise was the hardest one simply because of how complicated it was, though drawing huge boxes seems to help alot. The half attempt that i made before was too tiny and too difficult to work with so i decide to draw big to make it easier. And lastly the organic perspective excercise, i think i subconciously kept some of the boxes gridlocked so i didnt rotate them as much i know i should rotate them but i often only reailzed what i did wrong only after its done seeing how it would turn out before being finished is something i yet to develop. And i think thats all i have to say if someone wanted to critique my works i think these are the most obvious mistakes and i'd be happy to receive advice on how to fix them.

Critiques much appreciated!!

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7:33 AM, Tuesday December 7th 2021

With thin ellipses, yes use your shoulder, You will get used to it with practice, ghost the ellipse first and then confidently draw it.

"From the rough perspective exercises i find it hard to keep the lines to converge to one point and i often miss the mark by a huge margin" - This is the beginning , these exercises you will use as warm ups so you will have plenty of time to improve.

You did pretty good on the rotated boxes, They seem difficult but if you take it one box at a time it gets easier, building off of surrounding boxes. Using them as spacial reference

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Lines

most of them look really nice and confident.

Ellipses

Same case keep ghosting them and drawing from the shoulder.

Boxes

Plotted perspective is good

Rotated boxes are nice and tight-knit.

The only thing for the boxes are these lines that go beyond the end plot point you put, you could try lifting the pen from the page while you are still driving the pen forward to stop at the end point. Although With enough practice it should get better.

You can head on to the 250 box challenge.

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12:52 AM, Wednesday December 8th 2021

thank you so much for the critique kirocosmos i'll be sure to try what you reccomended

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