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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:46 PM, Thursday July 9th 2020

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Hey! Lesson 1 was much more difficult than it appeared at first glance. I really struggled with the ghosting method, but at the very last exercise I noticed that I got a bit better. Also found out that posture plays a BIG role in drawing from shoulder. I had to keep my hand at a certain distance so that my lines are nice and pretty. Organic Perspective was also tough, some of my boxes are weird and don't seem to have 90 deg angles. They look like trapezoids I guess? I'm a bit confused when things get rotated. Anyways, Lesson 1 was a lot of fun to do!

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7:14 PM, Sunday July 12th 2020

Your work was really well done! They were all very clean and very easy to look at. I particularly liked your rotated boxes. The rotated boxes weren't crowded and it was damn near perfect.

I would just work on making more confident lines, especially on your ellipses. Some of them were pretty rough.

Also you mentioned that rotated boxes confused you? My tip would be to remember that converging points shifts as you rotate a box. If you were to rotate your box to the left, the converging point on the left would be closer to the box and the converging point on the right would move farther from the box. If you were to rotate the box to a point where 3 point perspective would be needed, ie) top-left, top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right boxes on the rotated boxes exercises, the same principles would apply. If you were to rotate your box similar to the top-left box in the rotated box exercise, the converging point to the left would be closer, and the converging point on the top would also be closer. While the converging point on the right would be farther. In this position there's no converging point on the bottom.

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I would keep using the exercises you've learned in lesson 1 as warmups from now on to make sure you make those confident lines. The next step is now 250 box challenge.

Do your best!

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9:01 AM, Wednesday July 15th 2020

Thanks a lot, your explanation is actually useful. Drew some random boxes and I think I understand the concept better now. Moving on to 250 box challenge!

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