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7:45 PM, Thursday December 9th 2021
Congratulations on finishing lesson 1!
Linework: I notice that your linework lacks confidence(like mine when I did lesson 1. Remember, you want to ghost your lines several times then execute them quickly. Though your linework is wobbly, it's good that you didn't try to repeat any lines. Keep doing ghosted lines, superimposed lines, and ghosted planes as part of your warm-ups, and you should see improvement in that area.
Ellipses: In your table of ellipses exercise I notice many uneven ellipses. Remember on ellipses that you should be able to draw an imaginary line through the minor axis and have the halves match up.
Boxes: Your plotted perspective exercises look good. On your rough exercises, you want to remember to keep the horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and the vertical lines perpendicular to the horizon. It looks like you recognize this but are having trouble with keeping the lines straight. It also appear that you re-drew some lines on the rough perspective. Your rotated boxes look really good, especially considering how difficult of an exercise it is.
Overall it looks like you understand the material and are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge. In addition I would recommend doing some of the line and ellipse exercises as warm ups.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 boxes and add the ghosted lines, superimposed lines, ghosted planes, and table of ellipses exercises to your warm up regimen(just don't grind, and remember the 50% rule!)
7:42 PM, Saturday May 21st 2022
I'm super late, but thank you so much for your critique! ????
11:42 PM, Wednesday May 25th 2022
No problem! Always happy to help DrawABox beginners!
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