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10:45 AM, Saturday December 10th 2022
Hi, Dandus! I'm Keisari and I'm here to critique your submission for Lesson 1. Before we get into it, congratulations on finishing Lesson 1! Drawabox is a long and tough journey, but having the inititiative to get started is half the job done.
Lines
Generally, your lines look pretty smooth and confident! There's barely any wobble and you did a good job prioritizing confidence over accuracy. The main issue really seems to be some arching here and there, but as long as you're engaging your shoulder that should get better with practice. One thing I'd like to mention is that overshooting is preferable to undershooting, and if you're having trouble with that you might even want to try intentionally overshooting. I'd also like to suggest you use the same pen for your lines as you're using for your ellipses and boxes, as that blue ballpoint looks pretty faint, which makes it a bit harder to critique. Other than that, great job!
Ellipses
You're doing amazing with those! You're drawing through them 2-3 times smoothly and evenly and doing a great job with the confidence-over-accuracy principle. Some deformation is visible here and there though, specially in the Tables of Ellipses exercise, and for that I'd recommend you ghost your ellipses a little more thoroughly, and perhaps experiment with drawing them with greater speed.
Boxes
Your line quality here seems to have decayed quite a bit, with a lot more wobble and hesitation to be seem. The markmaking principles you abode to in the first part of the lesson are still to be followed here and through ALL of Drawabox. Confidence is still more important than accuracy and you should still be engaging your shoulder as well as plotting your lines. For the boxes themsleves, over you did a pretty great job! Your boxes are good enough, and you've shown proper understanding of the information and concepts presented throughout the lesson. Ther perspective on your Organic Boxes exercise is a bit wonky as many of the parallel lines are diverging rather than converging, but you'll have lots of time to work on that on the next part of Drawabox -- the 250 Box Challenge! Best of luck.
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge!
How to Draw by Scott Robertson
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