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4:34 AM, Thursday November 2nd 2023
LINE
Your lines look good for the most part. A good number look confident. In the superimposed lines exercise it looks like you are drawing them with speed which is great. On the curved lines I notice some lines are wobbly or do not flow. You are probably going slow with them. Remember you ghost the line a couple of times until you are confident with the motion, then once condfident with the motion, place the fine-liner at the start of the line and with one fast motion, draw in your line. So next time make sure to draw it in with a bit more speed, adjust as you see fit. Or you may not be drawing from the shoulder for those lines as they may be hard but remember to draw from the shoulder.
Your ghosted lines look good. nice and confident. A few wobbles but I with practice you will improve.
The ghosted planes look okay too. Keep ghosting and drawing with speed.
Ellipses
Your ellipses should be drawn through a minimum of twice and maximum of thrice.thrice some of yours I see two in the table of ellipses exercise that are drawn through more than thrice. Some of your ellipses look better than others, remember you first ghost the ellipse where you will place it until confident with the motion then draw it,drawing through twice or thrice. The ellipses which are wobbly or have corners are a result of non confident strokes where I assume you don't follow through with your ghosted motion but correct the ellipse while drawing it. So remember to ghost the ellipse and then draw it in.
In the table of ellipses I see a couple of ellipses overlapping, they should be touching and not overlapping. They are however touching the borders in most cases so thats great.
The ellipses in the funnels should be touching, I see some that have space between them.
Boxes
All of your boxes look good. In the rough perspective exercise it can help to remember that the vertical lines of the boxes are perpendicular to the horizon and the horizontal lines of the boxes are parallel to the horizon.
In the organic boxes and rotated boxes I see a few lines you drew over, remember plan, ghost then draw if it comes out wrong move on.
Overall not bad, you may move on to the 250 box challenge, and remember to do warm-ups and rereading the exercises helps too you may learn something you skipped. https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups
Good luck
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250 box challenge
11:21 PM, Thursday November 2nd 2023
Thank you for the thorough feedback, this is really helpful. As is the note about warm ups, totally forgot about those.
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