Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:44 PM, Thursday May 26th 2022

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Hey! Just finished my lesson 1 homework, i'll be glad to receive your review.

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11:05 PM, Thursday May 26th 2022

Hi, great job on completing Lesson 1!

Starting off on your Superimposed lines, there is slight fraying at the beginning of some of your lines but you kept it to a minimum. On Superimposed Lines and Ghosted Lines you show great understanding of using your shoulder and the ghosting method. Nice job on taking your time and plotting the points out. Your lines are barely wobbling and aren't arching either which is great.

It seems that you've forgotten to submit your 1st page of Table of ellipses and only your 2nd page, but no worries. I urge to draw through your ellipses more than once but it seems that you've resolved that issue on Ellipses in Planes and Funnels. Your ellipses tend to wobble showing your lack of confidence, but that's something you'll get more practice on in future lessons / exercises. Your Ellipses in Planes experience the same issue as well, some of them aren't touching 4 sides of the plane and tend to look loose. On the Funnels exercise, some of the borders aren't properly aligned with the minor axis causing the ellipses to look uneven. There's noticably more wobbly and loosely drawn ellipses on this page, and some aren't aligned to the minor axis. You tend to draw some of your ellipses at a slight tilt, which is a problem I face as well, I suggest making sure when you use the ghosting method that you're drawing straight.

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/drawingthrough

Moving on, good job on taking your time on Plotted Perspective with the boxes and with the hatching lines as well. Your Rough Perspective boxes lack a lot of confidence, but atleast half of your lines are going towards the vanishing point. No need to fret about this much, other than it's ok to feel nervous drawing boxes as this might be a new experience for you. That nervous feeling will definitely go away once draw 250 Boxes in the next Challenge. DaB already suggests this and I will too, you should take 10 - 15 minutes before doing the exercise practicing on warmups from Lesson 1 in future exercises / lessons. Practicing Ghosted Lines or Ellipses in Planes greatly helped me with my line work and my confidence. Onto your Rotates Boxes, you should take your time when hatching the lines. They should be treated just like any regular line using the ghosting method and shouldn't be rushed. Asides from that, good job on rotating your boxes. On Organic Perspective, this goes for your other pages as well but, don't feel the need to redo your lines even if you mess up. You should move on to the next line as if the line you messed up on was perfectly fine.

Overall, it'll definitely take more time for you to work on drawing boxes and feeling confident, which is exactly why the 250 Box Challenge is a thing. I'll be marking this lesson complete and just a reminder, to start incorporating warm ups before you do exercises and to also draw other things in your free time for fun, good luck!

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3:40 PM, Sunday May 29th 2022

Thank you very much!! I am so happy with your answer and I will follow all your advice onwards.

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