Hello! I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your Lesson 1
Superimposed Lines
There's fraying. Remember to place your pen mindfully before doing the stroke.
Ghosted Lines
These are good. Some of your lines arc a bit. If you arer drawing from your shoulder, you could intentionally try to arc your stroke a bit in the opposite direction to counteract the natural curve.
Ghosted Planes and Ellipses
While drawn with confidence, which is great, you draw through your ellipses more than two times, which makes it sloopy. Try to stick to two or three times only. Also, you didn’t complete your planes. The next time you do this exercise for your warmups, remember there should be lines that reach the middle of the sides.
Table of Ellipses
Your ellipses are not as tight and evenly shaped as they could be. Remember to apply the ghosting method mindfully. Every mark should be considered carefully before being made. Also, you draw only once through some of your ellipses.
Funnels
It is difficult, but remember to do your best to align them to the minor axis. Also, there shouldn’t be space between them.
Plotted Perspective
Well done.
Rough Perspective
Well done. The line extensions are done with pencil, which makes it difficult to read. Also, do the line extensions only once. Don’t give it several passes.
Rotated boxes
Well done.
Organic Perspective
The foreshortening of your many boxes is very dramatic. A shallow foreshortening would help keep the sense of scale consistent.
Next Steps:
Good job. Move onto the 250 box challenge.
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