Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

11:47 AM, Monday September 27th 2021

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Hey i just finished lesson 1,so far i am loving this course and looking forward to a critique before i pass to the 250 boxes challenge.

Thanks for your time.

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10:13 PM, Monday September 27th 2021

Good job on completing the lesson.

Here are the things I want to point out.

Super-imposed lines and Ghosted lines: Your lines look confident for the most part. I can tell you are using your whole arm, so good job on that. There are some issues with accuracy so make sure you keep ghosting your lines before you execute them. This way you will improve.

Ellipses in planes, tables of ellipses, funnels: There are a couple of issues with this exercise. The main thing i want to point out is that you didn't draw through your ellipses like it is instructed in the lesson. It is really important that you do this to build confidence and improve accuracy. I will also point out your ellipses aren't fit properly for the most part, and some of them aren't connected.

Rough perspective, rotated boxes, organic perspective: The mistakes you did on these excercises are pretty much the same as most people when they reach this part of the lesson. I also noticed that you overshot your lines on the organic perspective excercises. If you include ghosted lines as warm-ups, this will improve. I also noticed some lines that looked like you were chicken scratching, so make your you correct this by using the ghosting method. Otherwise, this will become a bad habit.

I hope I didn't sound too harsh. Also please follow the instructions for each excercise, and don't feel discouraged. With time and practice you will improve.

Next Steps:

I would personally advice you do the planes of ellipses excercise again. This time, make sure you draw through your ellipses 2-3 times like it is mentioned in the homework instructions.

The other issues I pointed out will improve once you're done with lesson 1 and focus on the 250 box challenge and you do your warmups.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
2:44 PM, Tuesday September 28th 2021

Thank you so much for your time.

I see what you pointed out,i should improve my lines right now.A member in discord told me that i drew tgem fadt and that i should take my time while doing them.

For the tables of Ellipses,i did lot of mistakes of accuracy as you said,and i think it will imprvoe by focusing on drawing trough the ellipses as you said.

I will redo the table of Ellipses and drop it in the discord server.Hope it will get better.

And finally, your critique isn't harsh at all, glad you are my 1st critique in this course, i rated your critique as very helpful????

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