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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

11:36 PM, Wednesday May 27th 2020

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Long ago, I took an art class and the aide said that I was not visualising things as 3D objects, so fast forward two decades and here I am. The Lines part was done using what I had on hand, a Sharpie Ultrafine and sketchbook paper. The Ellipses and Boxes were done on printer paper with a Sharpie Ultrafine. Will use an Acurit .5 pen for upcoming work. Thank you for reviewing my work.

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2:30 AM, Thursday May 28th 2020

Great job! You had some wobbling present in your superimposed but this was gone by the time you got through to your rough perspective - however do note there is still some wobbliness to your ellipses, where you're prioritizing hitting the bounds over having a smooth, evenly shaped ellipse. keep in mind our priority isnt to get accurate lines (as this will come as the muscle memory builds up over months of practicing smooth lines), rather to get smooth, evenly shaped ellipses -

-Rotated boxes need to have narrow, consistent gaps between each box, you did well on rotating moreso with each row, with some mistakes but thats okay, this is a super tough exercise and we don't expect L1'ers to be getting this for a good while.

-Theres room for improvement with your organic perspective boxes having their lines coming in towards shared vanishing points, but this will be directly worked on during the 250 box challenge, so no need to re-do, just keep that in mind for your future warmups

-so to recap - your main issue is that in your ellipses youre prioritizing hitting the bounds over having smooth, even shapes - in your warmups do try to correct this, speeding up just a little can help push you in the right direction, but remember what we're aiming for isnt super fast linework but rather just smooth lines, speed just happens to help when you're starting with little muscle memory

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Feel free to move onto 250 boxes :)

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4:06 AM, Friday May 29th 2020

Thanks! Will continue to work on the ellipses and everything else. I run into arm fatigue on some of the longer pages, so here's hoping that muscle memory will take over sooner rather than later.

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