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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:43 PM, Sunday July 6th 2025

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Can i move on to the next Challenge?

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6:21 PM, Monday July 7th 2025

Please, consider taking cleaner pictures next time, that will increase your odds of being critiqued.

Superimposed Lines:

  • Fill the page next time.

  • There is a lot of fraying. To fix that, take your time to place the pen on the same point before drawing a line.

  • Don't train ellipses here.

  • The lines are mostly confident.

Ghosted lines:

  • You didn't post the pictures for it.

  • Did you do it? It's a very important exercise, it shouldn't be skipped.

Ghosted planes:

  • You forgot to take a picture of it before adding ellipses.

  • The first page could've had more planes.

  • Sometimes your lines curve, but other than that, they are confident and straight.

Table of ellipses:

  • The ellipses improved at the second page.

  • There are too many skinny ellipses, add more variation to their shape.

  • Remember to add waves instead only diagonal cross sections.

  • Ellipses are smooth but you forgot to draw through them twice on the second page.

Ellipses in planes:

  • You strived to make them touch the four edges.

  • You drew through them twice.

  • Sometimes the ellipses get distorted, probably because you try to course correct them instead of just confidently executing what you ghosted before.

Funnels:

  • It's not a very good idea to skip an exercise, specially this early on.

plotted perspective:

  • If you decide to do hatching make sure you add it to all boxes on a frame, else it will just make the whole thing more confusing to look at.

  • Also, some of the hatching should've been partially covered because it's behind other boxes.

Rough perspective.

  • The picture is weird, if you zoom in on it, you can see every line has a grey copy on top of it.

  • Read the instructions more carefully next time.

  • Take your time to make sure the front and back faces are straight rectangles, they are skewed.

  • You didn't plot the lines back to the vanishing point.

  • Some lines are wobbly, are you using your shoulders? Take your time, plan your lines and draw them confidently, without second guessing.

Rotated boxes:

  • The hatching is supposed to be applied to the outer faces, you applied to the inner ones, which makes the drawing harder to understand.

  • Lines still woble.

  • The third box from the center converges less than the previous ones, which means they aren't rotated.

Organic Perspectice:

  • Boxes are fine, parallel sets of edges converge.

  • Lots of wobbling, indicating lack of confidence and/or drawing with the wrists.

Next Steps:

Read the instructions carefully. Everything, including the text.

1 page of funnels.

1 page of superimposed lines.

1 page of ghosted lines.

1 page of rough perspective with line extensions.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:27 AM, Thursday July 10th 2025

First of all, Im really sorry for NOT uploading the pages correctly. I didnt skip anything, i thought the last exercises were most important. Ill upload again in 3 days. Along with all the pages. Focusing more on The later Boxes perspective exercises.

2:56 PM, Thursday July 10th 2025

It's alright, mistakes happen.

6:38 PM, Thursday July 10th 2025

https://postimg.cc/gallery/66YcDxm

8:55 PM, Friday July 11th 2025

Ghosted lines: The lines are straight for most of their trajectory, but they start wavering at the end. Try just following the path you ghosted with confidence instead of course correcting. at most lift your pen early.

Ghosted planes: Your lines didn't lose quality; you did a good job finding the center.

Rough perspective: Take your time to make the sure the rectangles you planned are parallel to the borders before drawing the lines, nothing wrong with adding more points. Even if you make mistakes, you should still continue with the exercise, you will learn more that way, not to mention the fact that your real drawing will always have mistakes in them. You took your time to aim for the vanishing points. No need for self-critique here, that is up to people like me.

Funnels: You left big spaces between the funnel and the ellipses, try drawing them bigger, it's better than undershooting. The funnels themselves are misaligned, consider using some rounded corner to draw them next time, what matters isn't having a hard exercise, but an effective one. Again, when drawing ellipses just go for what you ghosted, there are some signs of hesitation here and there, such as uneven lines.

Superimposed lines: The page isn't filled. It's completely normal for you to have trouble drawing with your shoulder right now, so space the exercise between sittings. Take your time to position the pen right at the starting point, that will help reduce fraying. There is some wavering, try just following what you ghosted, remember that the time for course correction is already over and all you have to do now is just follow on with confidence.

Next Steps:

Start to work on the 250 Boxes and keep working on all Lesson 1 exercises as warm ups before each sitting.

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12:28 AM, Saturday July 12th 2025
edited at 1:16 PM, Jul 12th 2025

Correct me if im wrong. My warm up is-

1 page of Ghosted lines + planes

1 page of Ellipses +Funnels

1 page of Funnels

1 page of Rough + Plotted + Rotating Boxes

1 page of Super imposed line.

It takes alot of time to complete the above. Approx 3 hours. I dont think i wont have any time left for 250 box challenge.

edited at 1:16 PM, Jul 12th 2025
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6:40 PM, Thursday July 10th 2025

First of all, Im sorry for misplacing the Required pictures of Exercise.

I dont know why my hand cant trace the superimposed lines. When talking of shoulder, When i lift my elbow for shoulder, My hand feels heavy and lines come off wobly. So i try to feel my shoulder, instead.

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