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11:46 PM, Saturday February 19th 2022

Dear AN_DUH_SUN,

Firstly, I am still on lesson 1 myself so my advice should not be taken as dogma, but I'll try my best.

Superimposed Lines

Your lines flow as they should, with no fraying at the start. Good work.

Ghosted Lines

I see no wobbling or archs, just very neat lines. I would consider these lines to be level 2. Very good. If anything, you'll want to try longer lines, like at least half the length of the page to properly test if you draw from your shoulder on these lines.

Ghosted Planes

Excellent work. You redo lines at times but the end result is stunning.

Tables of Ellipses

The position of some of your ellipses seems to fall short of the borders and they aren't as tight as you may want yet, but I'm certain that those issues will be solved with practice.

Ellipses in Planes

Your planes nicely touch all sides and are properly formed. You're already very good at ellipses.

Funnels

Your ellipses seem to be mostly good. I didn't notice any errors that shouldn't improve with practice. You seem to have switched to a thicker pen at some point. This makes it harder to judge the quality of your work so please refrain from doing this in future. You also seem to have drawn a couple freehand ellipses. It is not possible for me to judge if they were drawn as intended.

Plotted Perspective

Some lines fall short of the vanishing points, you may try rechecking where both ends of your ruler are one last time before drawing your line. Otherwise your boxes look very neat.

Rough Perspective

It appears your biggest problem is undershooting your lines. It may help to ghost all the way to the vanishing point even if you wont draw that far.

Rotated Boxes

This exercise is very neatly done. The lines are straight, the boxes are close together and correctly turn. Very well done.

Organic Perspective

Nicely drawn. You've kept the illusion up rather well. At one point you've used another marker to go over your lines again. This makes it harder to judge the original lines. You may want to refrain from this in future.

Good luck, work hard and take plenty of breaks.

Best,

Mia

Next Steps:

If you continue with the 250 box challenge as the site recommends and do your warm-ups before each drawing session I'm confident you will have had enough practice to properly start with lesson 2, by the time you finish the challenge.

You may also try experiment with longer lines to make sure you can draw those properly as well.

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9:55 PM, Tuesday March 8th 2022

Thanks for the critique Mia.

I originally started lesson one with a brush pen a few of those pages I sis over once my fine liners came so that's why the funnels looked like I switched pens that was when I switched over to the fine liner. I didn't redo that entire page with just the fine liner. I'll make sure to only use one or the other going forward.

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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.

In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.

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