Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:20 AM, Friday November 13th 2020

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Ahead of time, I appreciate all your feedback and critique. I've sketched and doodled basically all my life but have always struggled to improve and get to an end result I'm satisfied with. These lessons seem like they are exactly what I was looking for.

I definitely struggled with the rotated boxes and organic perspective and need work all-around on producing consistently solid lines, but this is definitely the best I could do at this point.

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6:34 AM, Friday November 13th 2020

Lines

Your strokes feel very confidence on superimposed lines only one or the other is a bit shaky.  In ghosted lines you seem to curve the line to get to the other point, in this exercise make sure to keep the line straight even if it goes through the point.  In ghosted plans make sure to use the shoulder pivot.

Ellipses

In this part you can feel many shaky strokes but it is normal, I just remind you that you must maintain confidence and smoothness before precision

Boxes

In rotated boxes some boxes seem that only the vanishing point was slipped but it was not rotate, just take that into account

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Overall good work, I think you are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge

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10:29 PM, Wednesday November 18th 2020

Thank you for the feedback! I will do my best to take it all into consideration, especially with regard to not curving my lines.

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