Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:42 PM, Thursday July 29th 2021

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Hi there!

Having a good time doing this course, i'm so grateful for all the work and effort you put in this.

Unfortunately, since I uploaded my pictures from my phone (sorry for potato-like camera quality) I didn't manage to rearrange the images... hope it's not a problem!

Thanks again.

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9:00 PM, Saturday July 31st 2021

Hi Joe! Congratulations on doing a great job with lesson 1! I'm Gady and I'll be reviewing your work, so let's get to it.

Lines

Your lines look confident enough. I'd say there's a little wobble, specially on superimposed lines, but you superimposed fraying only on one end, and on top of that you were pretty accurate. The one thing I would stress here is that there's some kind of tendency to arch your lines: this may be because you're depending more on your elbow than your shoulder. So maybe keep that in mind, but there's no need to worry. I saw that you tried bold curves when practising superimposed lines, good job, this will help in future lessons.

Ellipses

You did pretty good on the table of ellipses. I can tell you strived for touching the edges and the adjacent ellipses everytime. You tried a variety of angles and always drew through 2 or 3 times, reaching really decent confidence and accuracy. I'd say you may practice a little bit more narrow ellipses, as you seem to have escaped from those. Your ellipses wobbled and deformed a little bit more when you had more specific constraints: when trying to reach all 4 points of ghosted planes and when approaching funnels. This is natural, as we tend to get more self-conscious when given a set of specific points to reach.

Boxes

I think this is a good first approach at perspective. Just one thing: on rotated boxes, last rows both from left and from right aren't rotating. Check this out: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg.

Organic perspective looks really good! I can tell you are going to have fun with 250 Box Challenge.

Final thoughts

All in all, this is really fine job, so I'll be marking this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

  • Incorporate these excercises to your daily 15 minute warm-ups

  • Move on with 250 Box Challenge

Good luck!

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2:42 PM, Sunday August 1st 2021

Thank you Gady for your critique!

I really appreciate your help, I'll now move on following your advices!

12:01 PM, Monday August 2nd 2021

I'm glad you found it useful, good luck!

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