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8:50 AM, Tuesday May 3rd 2022
hi J159! i'm Koyomi and i'm going to review your lesson 1 submission.
1.Lines
-i honestly don’t need to say much about the lines section, your lines are quite good, they are confident and i really see that you’re using your arm. There might be some wobbles here and there and it will get better with time and practice. but i think you got this so good job!
2.Ellipses
-on your tables of ellipses, some ellipses are overlapping each other and some are not touching with the others. It seems to me that you noticed that and tried to correct it in your second page so props for that!
-in the funnels exercise, some ellipses are not centered with the minor axis and you tend to draw ellipses outside of your funnels, don’t go this far even if the line continue try to keep them in
3.boxes
-you’re repeating some lines on the rough perspective exercise, no matter how off a line is try to keep it as if it were correct and move on
-on the rotating boxes exercise some boxes aren’t rotating like in this exemple: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg (especially the two middle left ones)
Next Steps:
move on to the 250 boxes challenge, good luck!
8:39 PM, Tuesday May 3rd 2022
Hey Koyomi, thank you so much for your critique! You're right; I did repeat lines for the box exercises. I've noticed that this section required shorter strokes (aka dividing the page in 3) but I'm having difficulties drawing short strokes with my shoulder, so sometimes I defaulted to my elbow/wrist. The box section in particular was pretty wobbly.
Thanks again and I'll keep note of your notes! (also I wanna rate your critique as max stars but I understand 2 others have to agree first, so I'll wait til other members of the community rate your critique so it doesn't get mixed up with mine) (at least I think that's how it works...)
9:51 AM, Wednesday May 4th 2022
no problem! and about the community agreement, not much people actually take the time to do that unfortunately but you could ask for agreements on the discord server
and i think you can move on without agreements (... i think)
8:42 PM, Friday May 6th 2022
Thanks, will do! :>
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