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6:17 AM, Tuesday June 29th 2021
Good job with finishing Lesson 1.
With your imposed lines, I see that the lines are fraying at both ends. While fraying at the end is normal for beginners, fraying at the beginning suggests that you are not taking the time to line up the drawing utensil. DaB has a focus on precision and structure and the exercises are there to develop good habits for later lessons.
With your ghosted lines assignment, I see that your lines show straightness to them which is good. It shows that you are ghosting the action. The lines to miss the mark sometimes but that is normal. Integrate this exercise in your warm ups, and you'll get better with time.
With your ghosted plane assignment, I see that there is a focus on accuracy. The lines do connect to their points but they are shaky at some points. This is normal for beginners. Remember to ghost those lines.
Ellipses are hard but you do a good attempt with them in your exercises. When you warm up ellipses in the future, try to limit yourself to 1-3 rotations max when drawing the ellipses. In your submission they look sketchy and keeping it about 1-2 rotations makes it look much cleaner.
With your perspective box exercise, I noticed that your lines appear sketchy which shows you are drawing multiple times over the lines to "correct" them. This isn't a great habit to build because the sketchy look muddles the shape of an object. This is noticeable with the organic perspective exercise where box edges can be seen redrawn multiple times. Remember to ghost straight lines you learned from earlier in your future assignments.
Good job with completing the rotated boxes assignment. It is one of the more difficult assignments in the whole DaB library and you pushed through it well. My only critique is again sketchy lines for boxes caused by drawing over multiple times.
I noticed your exercises are done in pencil. Remember that DaB Exercises are best when done in pen. This is to keep yourself to from worrying about erasing and it also keeps you from drawing sketchy muddled lines. Again, a lot of these current exercises are used as warm ups for later lessons and its a good habit to run through them for 10ish minutes. Doing these correctly is to ensure you are warming up properly and building correct muscle memory in the future.
You did a good job going through these assignments, however, I do believe you should at least do one page of ghosted lines and one page of ghosted planes with a pen. The ghosted planes exercise is the one I do the most and I implement it when warming up. It is important to build proper habits by doing it correctly in pen and it utilizes a bunch of important skills like ghosting, accuracy, and drawing ellipses. If you don't have a felt tip pen, thats fine! You can use a ballpoint pen as well for this exercise but I very highly recommend getting a felt tip as explained in Lesson 0.
Next Steps:
Finish one page of ghosted lines and one page of ghosted planes in pen. Afterwards, you can go begin the 250 box challenge.
10:54 AM, Tuesday June 29th 2021
Thanks, Here is the Recomended Ghosted lines and Ghosted planes
5:12 PM, Tuesday June 29th 2021
Great! Good job! You have some slight wobble in your lines but just be mindful of that when you continue to the 250 Box Challenge, which I believe you are ready to start!
Next Steps:
Move on to 250 Box Challenge.
How to Draw by Scott Robertson
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