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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:05 AM, Friday April 19th 2024

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3:19 PM, Sunday April 21st 2024

Hello! I see that in your Superimposed Lines exercise, you took your time to place your pen for each stroke, and executed them confidently. Congratulations, keep it up! In time, your accuracy will get even better.

In the Ghosted Lines exercise, I see that you've executed most of your lines with confidence. But in some of them, the worry of hitting the point made you arc the lines. You needn't worry about accuracy, as it will come with practice. To overcome this fear, you can also spend more time in the preparation phase until you feel totally confident in your line.

You've done an excellent job in the Ghosted Planes exercise, you're getting more comfortable with line execution. Congrats!

Also excellent job on the Tables of Ellipses exercise! It is apparent that you got more comfortable with drawing the ellipses by the end of it.

In Ellipses in Planes exercise, I see that the awkward shapes of some planes, and the additional challenge this exercise brings caused you to worry about your ellipses. In this exercise, it is important to take your time in the preparation phase and to confidently execute your ellipse. Prioritize the even shape and confident execution and leave the worry about hitting the 4 edges to the preparation phase.

In the Funnels exercise, I see that you've struggled with aligning the ellipses to the middle line. It is very understandable that getting the curved lines to be symmetrical is difficult, which caused you to focus on hitting on funnels rather than the middle line. As Uncomfortable said "One of the core elements of this exercise is getting used to your ellipses aligning to the central minor axis line. You want to make sure that the minor axis cuts each ellipse into two equal, symmetrical halves, down their narrower dimension." Your ellipse execution is great though, and with this shift in focus, you'll get it right!

Awesome work on the Plotted Perspective, Rough Perspective and Rotated Boxes exercises!

In the Organic Perspective exercise, you did a good job on estimating the divergence of the parallel lines, but in order to avoid having too much distortion, you can try to keep the initial Y lines roughly the same. Otherwise, great job, and keep it up!

Hopefully my review has helped, cheers!

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I recommend you to do one page of the Ellipses in Planes exercise. Try to spend more time in ghosting your ellipses and execute them confidently. Also I recommend you to do one more row of Organic Perspective. Cheers!

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5:49 PM, Thursday May 16th 2024
edited at 5:56 PM, May 16th 2024

https://imgur.com/a/8cbMGKp

Hi! Life caught up and I had to have a brief hiatus. Had a bit of rust to shake off at first; Feel more confident after finding my stroke pace and etc. again.

edited at 5:56 PM, May 16th 2024
9:15 AM, Friday May 24th 2024

Make sure to do the diagonal and parallel lines in the Ellipse in Planes exercise when you're going to do them for warm-ups. Cheers!

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As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.

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