Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:28 PM, Thursday September 15th 2022
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4:36 PM, Thursday September 15th 2022
Good morning Ambot!
It looks like you are having trouble with the smoothness of your arm movement. Some ways of helping with this are drawing faster, drawing with more confidence, and ghosting until you are comfortable with the movement.
I would recommend getting a third option, and moving on to the 250 box challenge.
Keep consistently doing your warmups, and those lines will shape up!
Cheers!
Emmet.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge.
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6:58 PM, Wednesday September 21st 2022
Good job getting through it!
Try this: whenever your lines wobble, try making several loosely on a scratch page (without trying to follow a ruler, or aim for dots) just to get that confident feeling. Then go back to the exercise for a while. Same thing with the ellipses. Do some without having to fit them into a space for warmups, then go back to fitting them in panels or funnels or planes.
The organic perspective boxes aren't bad. I think step 3 is the critical step to getting the convergences: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 . Make sure the set of lines you add converges with the original "y," and that those lines are just a bit shorter than the "y" line they are parallel with (because they're a bit farther from you in space).
Next Steps:
Keep doing lines and ellipses as warmups, but go ahead and move to the 250 box challenge.
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