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4:36 AM, Thursday June 25th 2020
Firstly I would like to say welcome to the drawabox journey, well done for starting of so strong.
So your line marking is looking really solid over all. You are placing your pen on the start markmost of the time and drawing confidently. Remember to think about the line before you place your pen, and when placing put it consciously on the beginning of your pine. You have overshot your mark at points, and this is perfectly ok. Confident drawing from the shoulder is the goal here and if you draw confidently and overshoot that is fine.
Your ghosted plances are well done, you have some wobbles coming in as you may be overthinking some of the lines. Remember once your pen is on the page, no more thinking, time for a confident stroke. You are already appying foreshortening aspects to the planes so your on the ball good job.I cant see many other things to comment on so onto ellipses.
Your ellipses started quite wobbly, however improved dramatically as you got more comfortable. We are after even ellipses number one then you can work to fit them into the spaces required. We dont want to bulge an ellipse to hit a corner it would not naturally hit. I know this is hard, but making mistakes like this means your learning, without mistakes, we dont learn. You have kept the minor axis consistent as well so keep it up. Your ghosted planes look real solid and you have successfully applied foreshortening to the ellipses which i a hard thing to do so well done. YOur funnels are also solid with consistent minor axes.
Your plotted perspectives are solid, these are some of the harder lines to draw confidently in the lesson but remember this is priority number one. Your rotated boxes are well done, and plotted boxes all have consistant foreshortening and follow the lines. Dont be afraid to draw some larger ones at the front, and your use of red pen to correct a mistake is perfect, no need to correct using the black pen, let it shine as a reminder that you are progressing.
Awesome work, keep it up and I'm excited for your journey ahead. Good luck with the 250 boxes, make a habitat of doing an amount that is manageable for you each day and you will fly through them.
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6:34 PM, Tuesday June 30th 2020
Sorry I couldn't reply sooner. overall thanks for the great review and tips I will move on to the next step then.
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