Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:45 AM, Thursday September 2nd 2021
Lesson 1 complete, also I feel like I should redo the funnels exercise.
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1:01 AM, Tuesday September 28th 2021
Hello, welcome to Drawabox. I will be reviewing your work. Before I continue I want to say that this is one of, if not, the best lesson 1 submission I have seen, congratulations! Keep doing what you do!
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Sometimes your lines have wobbles, usually towards the end of it. It’s much more better to overshoot instead of undershooting it. Over time your lines will get more accurate but for now it’s alright to overshoot.
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Remember that the lines in ghosted planes should intersect at the same point (the middle of the plane).
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Most of the time your ellipses are confident, smooth and drawn over twice, but you should also draw them touching each other. One thing that helped me is to think of the sides of the boxes and other ellipses as boundaries the ellipses I am drawing must touch (similar to plotting my points in ghosted lines). It looks like you are aware of this and on some ossxsx
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Sometimes your ellipses go outside the boundaries of the table, funnels and planes. The ellipses should be touching the boundary but not go outside of it.
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Your funnels are good. You can always redo them whenever you feel the need to but in my opinion it is good enough to move on. One of the funnels looks like it was done freehand, remember to use a circular object to help you instead of freehanding the funnels.
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Something to note here is that some of your ellipses in the funnels exercise is not split into two equal halves. It mostly happens at the end of the funnels and I thought I should mention it.
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You should not draw three rotated boxes on the sides, as explained here. I will let it pass though as it looks like you understand the exercise enough.
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There are some perspective issues on organic perspective. You don’t have to redo it though since you will be working on your perspective at the 250 boxes challenge.
It looks like you have a clear understanding of the lesson. Most of the exercise do not have any major mistakes aside from the table of ellipses not having ellipses touching each other, but it looks like you did it better at the end of the table / other ellipse exercises. I think you have understood enough for lesson 1 and are ready to move on to the 250 boxes challenge, good luck.
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