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8:09 PM, Saturday May 11th 2024
Congratulations on completing lesson 1! Here's some feedback.
Lines
Your lines look really confident. There appears to be a bit of a curve on some of the longer ones, but it looks like you corrected that by page 2.
Ellipses
These also look confident, and I see improvement as you go along. Continue to practice them in your warmups, and remember to include both flatter and rounder ellipses. I personally find the flatter ellipses easier, and the round ones more difficult. In lessons 2-5, you'll be drawing lots of ellipses and circles for the organic forms.
Boxes
These are looking really good. The plotted perspective is good.
The rough perspective also looks like you understand it well, but the lines to check your work are missing. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/20/step9 You'll be doing a similar thing to check your work on the 250 box challenge. The organic perspective looks great! The boxes are spinning about, and it seems you already have a handle on convergence. You'll practice an even greater variety of box types in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
This looks really good overall. I just need you to add the colored "check your work" lines to the rough perspective exercise. You'll do something similar in the box challenge to check your work.
Beyond that, if you join the discord, there's a critique exchange channel that lets you critique 5 things and ask to receive a critique (details in the pinned message). Things get critiqued a lot faster that way! Also, you can get feedback mid lesson on each lesson channel, which helps a lot.
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9:32 AM, Saturday November 30th 2024
Agree with the critique! Can't wait for you to earn earn your badge once you complete revisions :)
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