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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:06 AM, Wednesday August 17th 2022

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I would be very grateful for any critique and advice :)

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10:56 AM, Wednesday August 17th 2022

Hey, some of your images aren't loading, imgur says they're gone, so I can't critique every page. But I'll still critique what's there.

Your superimposed lines have some fraying at the start, suggesting that you didn't take enough time to place the tip of your pen on the exact starting point of the line. There's a lot of fraying at the ends as well, but that's to be expected.

Your lines in general have a tendency to be quite wobbly and uneven. I would recommend moving your arm faster and keeping a dedication to your ghosted stroke, as is explained in the Lines section of Lesson 1 (can't go wrong with a rewatch).

Your ellipses share this issue as well, they lack smoothness. Making sure you use your whole arm and prioritizing the flow over the accuracy is the main tip I can give here.

Your Rough Perspective boxes are a little inaccurate, but you show a solid-enough understanding of where to place your points.

Your Rotated boxes are slightly asymmetrical, the biggest issue lies in the inner part. Your goal for the inner part of the spherical shape should be forming a small sphere with the bases of the boxes, just like the outer part.

Many of your Organic Perspective boxes feature strong distortion (and some look like they're triangular prisms), but the Box Challenge will be very helpful for fixing that.

Next Steps:

Please send all of your pages, and after those are done and critiqued you may start the 250 Box Challenge, while doing about 10 minutes of Ellipses In Planes as a warmup.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
12:18 PM, Thursday August 25th 2022

Hello.

First of all, thank you for the feedback and your time.

I don't know what might be the issue with imgur, as all images load correctly on my side. Nevertheless, I uploaded everything here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ycjDFmCzbH-TPQy8cGu7rRl9bFS-YUto?usp=sharing hope it works this time.

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