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7:34 PM, Sunday July 19th 2020
Hello Pie Versus Cake! I dig the username hehe (for the record, I'm on team cake)
Lines
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I see a bit of fraying at the starting ends of the Superimposed Lines exercise. Remember to be precise with where you place the initial point; fraying is only okay at the end, not at the start.
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Wow, you did a lot of ghosted lines! Some of these look a bit wavy. Remember to draw from the shoulder and try to switch off your brain as much as possible (I know that can be hard). Missing the endpoint is okay here.
Ellipses
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The shape of your ellipses in general is good.
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Your strokes aren't very tight when you draw over the ellipses the second and third time. That's alright at this stage, though.
Boxes
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Your Plotted Perspective boxes are a bit slanted. Align the boxes with the frame as much as possible.
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Your Rough Perspective boxes are a little misshapen. A trick I like to use for this exercise is to make sure the face that's furthest from the POV are both aligned with and have the same side-length ratios as the initial rectangle.
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There's some severe foreshortening going on with your Organic Perspective boxes. Try to make the perspective a little less extreme when you do the 250 boxes challenge.
Next Steps:
I recommend having another go at Ghosted Lines and Rough Perspective (1 each), just to nail down the fundamentals a bit harder before moving onto the 250 box challenge.
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Staedtler Pigment Liners
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).