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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

11:17 PM, Thursday November 30th 2023

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Here's my submission for Lesson 1. I drew these awhile ago. Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks!

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4:33 AM, Friday December 1st 2023

Some of the lines on the later pages (most of the boxes) look like they've been gone over multiple times. It seems like this maybe detracts from the goal of being "confident" in the lines. But other than that I think it looks like the excercises were completed correctly and with intentionality!

Next Steps:

Move on to the 250 box challenge I think. I just finished lesson 1 as well and that's what I'm going to do!

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4:09 PM, Thursday December 14th 2023

Hey RAZGRIZ0531!

Congrats on finishing Lesson 1! Today I'll be critiquing your homwork. Let's begin, shall we?

1. LINES

1.1 Super Imposed Lines

Your lines looks really nice, they are varied, not much wobbling, just a bit of fraying at the ends which is completely fine, not much arching neither and plotted well. The curved ones also looks really well. Nice job!

1.2 Ghosted Lines

This part also looks well done. There is just a small amount of wobbly lines and arching but that's not a problem because most of them are quite great. I don't think I can say anythink else.

1.3 Ghosted Planes

Well, you are doing really great for a beginner! Only thing I can say about this part is that I see that you repeated some of your lines. You don't need to do that, keeping them just as they are and moving on is actually quite important. But apart from that nice job on this, your planes looks really clean.

2. ELLIPSES

2.1 Tables of Ellipses

Some of the ellipses are not touching the borders and overlapping but you've did mostly well here. They are varied but next time maybe try to slant them a bit more, it can be quite fun.

2.2 Ellipsesin Planes

These look fantastic! I don't have anything to say other than that :D

2.3 Funnels

I'm not sure about the ones on the corners but others are looking great. The minor axis cuts them in to symetrical halves, the ellipses are drawn nicely and kept close to each other. Yeah that's it!

3, BOXES

3.1 Plotted Perspective

Yeah I don't see anything wrong with these exercises.

3.2 Rough Perspective

Seems like you've had some problems with keeping your width lines parallel to the horizon line at first but the next boxes doesn't appear have this problem so good job with fixing your mistakes! However just as a reminder, please don't repeat your lines in these exericeses.

3.3 Rotated Boxes

This is the best homework for this exercise I've seen so far really nice job! It is usually hard for students to actually understand this concept of rotating boxes in 3D space but your's looks amazing. Just a small tiny note, try to keep the corners of the boxes at the edges a bit closer to each other.

3.4 Organic Perspective

Don't worry if you think that the perspective is a bit off here, you've still did a really nice job.

So yeah that's all I could say about your Lesson 1 submission. I'm sorry if it's a bit shorter than you've expected this is really all I could say. I think you are ready to move into the 250 Boxes Challenge.

And by the way. if you don't mind me asking, is this your first time picking up drawing?

Next Steps:

Feel free to move into 250 Boxes Challenge. Don't forget about your warm-up exercises and the 50% Rule!

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7:28 PM, Tuesday December 19th 2023

It's not my first time picking up drawing. I've been doing it badly on and off since I was a kid.

I started Drawabox a couple of years ago but I dropped off, I've recently got back into it.

8:39 PM, Wednesday December 20th 2023

I see, hope you'll stick around this time! Have a nice day :)

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