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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:44 AM, Friday September 9th 2022

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Hello there, hope you are doing fine, a month ago i completed the first draw a box lesson and i was proud, but i was feeling a lack of motivation at the end so i didnt post my homework until now, now i hope you can help me and critic me,i did it in ballpoint because i cant afford a pen, im sorry and its a "little" desordenated, i tried to acomodate it but my internet wasn't collaborating, i will be waiting for the critique. (is there is something that its missing, please tell me, as i say my internet wasn´t colaborating xd)(sorry for bad english)

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5:49 PM, Friday September 9th 2022

I'm still starting out here, and this would be my first critique, so feel free to use this as a second opinion, but here's what I think regarding each section.

Lines

You seem to have done an excellent job with the lines, following the instructions carefully. I do suggest though practicing to lift your hand a bit earlier, as you've got some of your lines overshooting in the planes exercise. I believe this comes with practice, though, and other than that your lines are good.

Ellipses

Great job with the ellipses as well, you correctly got them to fit into their containers for each exercise, going over them twice/3 times max as instructed. What I do notice, though, is that some of them are a bit wobbly, so I'd suggest you draw a tad bit quicker when you've ghosted a confident amount of times before plotting your ellipse. Also, try to keep the ellipses in some examples in the funnel's exercise a bit more close to each other, where they'd touch each other ("fit them snuggly").

Boxes

You've done a marvelous job with the boxes, to be honest. One tiny comment, though, would be that once a line is drawn, you shouldn't go over it again. Going over what you've drawn for a second/third time only applies to the ellipses for this lesson; other than that, any line drawn should follow the ghosting method and only be draw once, then continue according to that line even if you feel it's a little off. Other than that one comment regarding the lines of the boxes, you truly did a perfect job, in my opinion, with the boxes' exercises.

Next Steps:

I suggest you move on to the 250 boxes challenge, and whilst covering it, make sure you draw the lines only once for the boxes as I mentioned in my critique. I'm not sure if the going over the lines again means you have to re-do the exercises or not, but I don't think you purposefully did that mistake (I think it was a subconscious thing), hence I suggest to just keep that point in mind for the future, rather than re-doing the whole thing. Again, I am no expert, so feel free to just wait for another critique to tell you what they think. Wish you all the best!

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7:53 PM, Monday September 12th 2022

Sorry if i forgot to answer, my internet was not collaborating again XD, thanks you very much for you response, i will take in account the thing about not redoing my lines when i do the 250 box Challenge

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