Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
6:09 PM, Monday November 9th 2020
Thank you for seeing my work . I'll appreciate any comment !
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3:14 PM, Tuesday December 8th 2020
Dear Anbarbosa,
First of all, for future submissions, please try to upload the pages in order. You have an option on Imgur to rearrange the photos before generating the link. This will come in handy at the 250 boxes challenge.
Lines
In the pages with the Superimposed Lines exercise, most of them look good. I see that you did not make ''S'' shape superimposed lines.
The rest of the lines look ok, I like that you draw them with confidence.
Ellipses
Ellipses must be drawn through ellipses 2 to 3 times, (2 times preferably). In Ellipses in Planes - I like that you tried to touch all the sides of the planes.
Funnels - the funnel ellipses look quite nice, in some cases they are not inside the funnel but it looks ok.
Boxes
Box exercises look really good.You are drawing them with confidence and they look really clean.
Rotated Boxes - this looks good, it is a complicated one but you should feel proud that you had the courage to start it and have beautiful results.
Organic Perspective - you are missing one page.
Congratulations for the first lesson!!
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I’d like to see one page of Organic Perspective, because you forgot one page :)
12:34 PM, Thursday December 24th 2020
Dear Irainam,
I already have two pages of Organic Perspective on my Imgur post, maybe it didn't load well.
Thank you a lot, I was not expecting to recieve an answer since I uploaded it time ago.
I just completed the 250 boxes challenge, I'll also appreciate if you take a look.
I will look at your excercises and comment.
Thank you! :)
4:38 PM, Sunday December 27th 2020
Hello,
Congrats for the 250 boxes Challenge! it was really hard for me that one :))
I can't critique that one because I am not there yet in my evolution but I looked over it and it looks amazing! So clean and organized. My first boxes were not this good!
Congrats again!
Next Steps:
Lesson 1 finished, good luck on the other lessons!
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