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10:34 PM, Tuesday July 21st 2020

Congratulations, and good job on finishing lesson one!

Overall, you did a pretty good job on all assignments. A few points worth mentioning:

  • Your superimposed lines seem pretty good, no fraying on both ends, and your lines seem confident;

  • Same on ghosted lines, just a bit of arching, but most of time you did prety well on making the lines clear and confident. I found some a bit too light, seeming to be broken, but it is not a problem;

  • The tables of ellipses are also good, managed to hit the limits pretty well, and not much "wobbliness" on the lines. Accuracy will get better with time;

  • Great job on aligning the minor axis on funnels!

  • On rotated boxes, the ones on the horizontal and vertical axis extremes' don't look really rotated comapred to their neghbour ones. You still did pretty good on most of the exercise, as it is really hard.

  • On the organic perspective, some lines have been drawn more than once. Remeber to make a single, confident mark, even if it goes wrong!

Next Steps:

You should remember to keep doing these exercises as warmup before drawing! And proceed to the 250 box challenge!

Also, if you can, take some time to critique some of the community Lesson 1 homework, as it will help you (in better understanding the concepts you learned here) and the community!

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7:08 AM, Thursday July 23rd 2020

Thanks so much for taking the time to critique my work! I found it very helpful! I have one question about doing these excercises as warmup before drawing. How often do you recommend doing them and are there some I should focus more on than other? Thanks!

3:41 PM, Thursday July 23rd 2020

The general rule of thumb is to select two or three exercises from lesson one and do them for 5-15min (total, not 5-15min each) before each each drawing session, changing exercises each time.

About focusing, I usually just keep changing between sessions. Even if you are "underdeveloped" in some of them, you'll be doing them a lot, so its guaranteed to improve!

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