Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:40 PM, Wednesday July 9th 2025

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Hello guys, I'm from Brazil and I'm submitting my work here for critique. Any advice would be very helpful.

Should I submit this for Official Critique, or would it be better to redo something (or everything)?

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4:15 PM, Thursday July 10th 2025

Superimposed lines: A maioria das linhas retas estão boas, mas boa parte delas (princimpalmente as mais longas) apresentam curvas, que provalvemente indicam que você tentou mudar de direção no meio do caminho ao invés de só seguir com confiança no ghosting. As linhas curvas poderiam ser maiores, o que facilitaria o trabalho do ombro, elas possuem alguns indícios de hesitação, mas no geral estão boas. Tente posicionar a caneta mais próxima do ponto inicial da proxima vez, para diminuir os "fiapos" (fraying).

Ghosted lines: As suas linhas são nível 2, ou seja, são retas, seguem a trajetória certa, mas ainda não acabam exatamente no ponto final. Eu recomendo que você levante a caneta antes de passar do ponto final, é melhor do que ultrapassar.

Ghosted planes: Suas linhas permaneceram retas.

Table of ellipses: Os elipses tem um formato uniforme, eles preenchem o espaço sem deixar brechas significantes.

Ellipses in planes: Os ellipses tocam os quatro lados do plano. Alguns elipses estão levemente ovais, mas a maioria deles foi bem exexecutado.

Funnels: Os elipses estão bem alinhados.

Plotted perspective: Tudo certo, mas considere limitar o hatching somente à parte de frente das caixas.

Rough perspective: Tudo certo.

Rotated boxes: Excelente para o seu nível.

Organic perspective: As caixas são bem variadas em tamanho e rotação, e as linhas paralelas convergem.

Next Steps:

Pode ir para as 250 caixas, e se lembre de usar os exercícios que você já fez nas warm ups

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10:08 PM, Friday July 11th 2025
edited at 10:08 PM, Jul 11th 2025

Thank you for your analysis and reply, I'll keep training hard on the 250 box challenge, with warm ups

edited at 10:08 PM, Jul 11th 2025
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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.

On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.

In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.

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