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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:56 AM, Wednesday November 30th 2022

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I'm excited for this little milestone, although it took longer than expected I'm finally done with lesson 1.

Any critique will be much appreciated ????

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12:53 PM, Tuesday December 6th 2022

Hello, I will be critiquing your work

Lines

-starting with your superimposed lines, I see most of them are confident but some are wobbling especially the curved and longer lines and you should prioritize flow over accuracy. I can see in the longer lines you are leaving some lines in the middle but after starting a line take it all the way and then move on.

-In your ghosted lines the initial lines are a little wobbly but when moving down they are looking confident.

-Ghosted planes are looking a lot better and I can see that you commited to the linework here a lot better.

Ellipses

  • The ellipses in the table and planes are looking confident and drawn 2 to 3 times. The position of some ellipses are a little off so keep their position in mind while warming up.

-most of the ellipses in funnel exercise are turning out better. I think you would benifit from doing a little extra practice with your ellipse exercise when you do warmups.

Boxes

-your rough perspective is turning out nicely, but I see that the estimations for the vanishing points are a bit off. This should also improve with practice. Also edges of some boxes are looking a bit wobbly so you should put more time ghosting them.

  • your rotated boxes exercise looks nice and confident. Something that may help is giving yourself more room to ghost the lines and adding hatching marks to define the shapes more, otherwise this turned out good.

-lastly the organic perspective exercise is looking confident and I see that you attempted the rotation of the boxes.

  • Always use this lesson in your warmup routine.

Next Steps:

I'm going to go ahead and mark your lesson as complete and you can move on. Good job :)

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5:34 PM, Saturday December 10th 2022

Thank you so much for taking out time to offer critique. I can't wait to have fun with the 250 box challenge

8:43 AM, Monday December 12th 2022

Glad to help.

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