Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:41 PM, Sunday November 20th 2022

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Hello, this is all of lesson 1! This is a really fun and eye-opening experience so far, looking forward to the critique so i cant continue

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4:50 PM, Friday November 25th 2022

Super imposed lines are looking fine, your ghosted lines however seem to have a bit of wobbling which could be due to a lack of confidence or not drawing with your shoulder (still, it's just a few of them)

Your ellipses also look great, although one or two do overlap each other. You did great in the ghosted planes with the ellipses.

Except the occasional wobbling, your rough perspective looks great, and so does the organic perspective (though some lf the boxes don't seem to be changing much their orientation in space). The rotated boxes also look great, the corners are aligned and there is rotation in all of the boxes.

Overall you understood everything great, keep it up! I am marking you as complete, so good luck with the 250 boxes!

(sorry if some part of the review sounds akward, english is not my first language)

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5:22 PM, Saturday November 26th 2022

Thanks! great review, english isnt my first language either but yours was perfect, nothing sounded akward.

As for the wobbling yes, i caught myself sometimes drawing from my elbow and not my shoulder, i have really long arms and sometimes i just do it automatically because its more comfortable that way. Im working on it. Good eye on catching that!

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