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7:32 PM, Saturday September 12th 2020
Hi,
I've looked through your work and i must say your boxes are very well done! Here's a few things you can do to improve.
Lines
Overall, your lines wobble here. There's a number of reasons why that could be the case. Maybe you're overthinking it and not trusting your muscle memory. Maybe your arm trajectory is too fast or not fast enough. Or maybe, your ghosting needs improvement (e.g. avoid drawing the line until you can ghost 3 perfectly straight ones in a row, etc) For me personally, it's been the shifting of weight and loosening my grip a bit that really helped alot. Ultimately, it all comes down to practice and your familiarity with using your shoulder. With enough persistence, those lines will come around eventually. Try all these things for yourself and see what helps you the most.
Ellipses
There's wobbling in your ellipses too. Although there's not much problem with the allignment or with overshooting, there's an issue with deformed ellipses, especially with the ellipses on planes exercise. Don't concern yourself with fitting them into the plane, your main priority should be to maintain an even shape to these ellipses. You just need to be more familiar with using your shoulder and that takes practice.
Boxes
Your boxes are your strongest point here. There's a few convergence issues with the rotated boxes but it comes close in many cases. On the organic perspective, there's some rotation in 3d space but it still needs more. Try to apply more convergence to closer boxes and less to those farther away. Lastly, with the overlapping boxes, you want to superimpose the silhouettes to clarify which boxes are in front, giving more line weight to the closer boxes and less to those farther away. Don't add line weight to the inner lines like you did to the last couple of boxes. Other than that, a job well done!
You can do the superimposed lines table of ellipses and ellipses in planes as a daily 10-15 minute warmup. Alot of the spatial challenges are covered in the 250 box challenge.
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250 box challenge
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12:21 AM, Sunday September 20th 2020
Playfulwolf,
Most of your work is good. Especially your rotated boxes. If I had to say work on anything, it would be making sure you take time to align your pen tip to the starting point when doing the superimposed lines exercise. The rest of your work is really good. Good job. I think you are ready for the 250 box challenge.
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