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2:24 PM, Friday July 24th 2020
Hello SedroPantos!
Overall, your submission looks pretty solid!
Lines
Your lines are overall pretty confident with smooth and continuous flow. There are some that wobble as you draw towards the targeted point. To note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder. Essentially, a confident stroke that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate but wobbly line.
Ellipses
Ellipses are off to a good start and are generally confident. There are a couple of exceptions, where the ellipses wobble. A few ellipses also turn sharply as you fit them in their allotted spaced. Still, the priority will be on developing and maintaining smooth and confident strokes. Then you can start working on its roundedness, and finally its accuracy.
With the exception of a couple, the ellipses in the funnel are generally aligned to the minor axis, so nice job with that. Good job drawing through each ellipses appropriately (2-3 times).
Boxes
As you continue to go through your boxes, there are some nice confident lines. But there is still a fair share of hesitant lines. So remember to plan, ghost, and execute the line confidently with your shoulder for every line. Also, I notice there are no repeated/corrected lines (maybe just two that I saw) — meaning you’re sticking to the lines that you have put down on the page, which is awesome!
Rough perspective
A couple of things to keep in mind for this exercise:
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Horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line
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Vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon line
While there are plenty of evidence you are doing this (which is certainly a challenge in itself!), there are some lines that stray off diagonally.
Rotating boxes
First off, congratulations on getting through this exercise!
The boxes are along the horizontal and vertical axis are actually not rotating, meaning the boxes are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point as the box adjacent to it. There is some rotation occurring on the boxes moving away from the center. The boxes are fairly well neighbored to each other, and you are drawing through your boxes, which is great.
Organic perspective
Great job getting through this exercise, it’s another tough one! As the boxes get slightly smaller on the path, you’ve captured a sense that they move slightly away from the viewer. In terms of perspective, there are some sets of parallel lines that diverge away, making planes that are further away appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. But no worries, you’ll have plenty of practice in the 250 Box Challenge!
With that said, you’re off to a nice start!
Next Steps:
Congratulations on completing lesson 1!
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Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)
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Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
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Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
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Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
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