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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:09 PM, Wednesday August 12th 2020

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Hello everyone, I'm here to submit my homework for the Lesson 1. I'm open for any kind of criticism you have so fire away, though it's very hard to share my work with you guys but I mustered the courage to share it so I can improve, I should not be inside of a bubble. I'm sorry if any images appear to be a bit blurry in advance.

During this lesson I ran into a lot of constant urges to redo my works because they didn't turn out right/the lines are not very fluent/boxes don't look right etc. I wanted to have another go at it and do it better. I'm gonna be honest I did redo 2 or 3 exercises, I realized that it would take a long time for me to be satisfied with what the end-result is, Uncomfortable specifically said not to grind, do only the required amount and not to go beyond it. I'm fighting that urge and it's been going well.

Of course I did practice by using some of these exercises as warm-ups before I draw and I can say I did improve a lot.

Anyway thanks for looking at my work.

Hope you have a good day!

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8:36 PM, Thursday August 20th 2020

Hello!

Your lines look good, there are some that tend to be curvy towards the end though, when you ghost them try to do it several times from the initial point to the end point exactly, so that when you do draw the line you know when to finish it.

The ellipses are fine too! They show confidence, and that is the most important part of this lesson, so good work! With more practice you'll be able to draw them with more accuracy. Also, when you do these exercises as warm ups try to not leave so much space between them as you did on the table of ellipses.

The perspective exercises are also good, but try to practice adding more weight to some of the lines, so that they don't get confused with the others, like on the rotated boxes or the organic perspective exercises.

But overall you did really good! Try not to be so hard on yourself and to not re-do these exercises, you will keep doing some of them as warm ups anyways. Remember that the exercises don't have to be perfect, that's not really the point of making them!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge!

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4:54 PM, Monday September 7th 2020

Sorry for such late reply, I've been a bit busy for a past few weeks. Thanks a lot for your input, I appreciate it a lot. I will keep these things in mind as I continue moving forward.

While I work on the 250 box challenge I will still work on these exercises as warm-ups and try to work on my lines so I can improve them.

Once again thank you very much, hope to see you in my future posts!

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