Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:26 AM, Tuesday October 27th 2020

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Hello! I would like to get a feedback and critics on my Lesson 1 Activities. Thank You!

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4:25 PM, Tuesday October 27th 2020

¡Wepa! Hope you're having a good day. I'm Snake7 and I'm going to review your work. So, lets start:

Lines:

On the superimposed lines: I love how clean your lines look. There is barely any fraying on either side, and the confidence is there. I guess the only suggestion I can give you is to practice different types of lines in the future, not just straight lines.

On ghosted lines: I have no complains whatsoever. You barely missed the dots and the lines are filled with confidence, and that's exactly what we're looking for.

On ghosted planes: Same with ghosted lines; just really pretty and clean lines over all. Although you could experiment with the shapes more.

Ellipses:

On the table of ellipses: They are confident, but it looks like you tried to fix your ellipses with the extra loops, and thats not the idea here. If the placement of the first loop is off, just roll with it, and pass over the same loop once or twice. You can work with placement with a new one. Also, there is a bit of wobble, which you don't have with your straight lines, so practice different types of lines and curves to help with that.

On the ellipses with ghosted planes: It has the same problems as the table of ellipses, so if anything, you should include ellipses in your warm ups.

On the Funnels: They look good, even the ellipses are cleaner here, but for some reasont the lines feel forced, as if there was alot of tension in your hand. Try to relax a bit and practice more ellipses.

Boxes:

On the plotted perspective: Beautiful work, I have no complains.

On the Rough perspective: The boxes look really rough, which is surprising considering how clean your lines looked before. I think its because of the line weight, so practice the line weight more.

On the rotated boxes: Looks decent, and the rotation is there. Obviously the form of the sphere is not perfect, but all in all, it looks clean and you understood what was asked of you.

On the organic perspective: The boxes look really good and you understood the exercise pretty well; good work.

All in all, great job. You can pass to the next exercise.

Next Steps:

Go to the 250 box challenge, and good luck.

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2:54 AM, Friday October 30th 2020

I largely agree with Snake here, you did a great job! The main other point I would personally make is that on some of the boxes in the rough perspective you redrew alot of the lines. Just wanted to let you know that its super ok to make mistakes and wanted to drop this tidbit I got from the reviewer on my lesson 1 submission, because I totally did the same exact thing...: "Here I noticed you repeat some of your lines. In this course you should avoid it. This will teach you to make peace with mistakes and the form will appear more stable. It's okay if a line didn't come out accurately, this will improve as you practice." Best of luck on your future progress! I will also be heading into the 250 box challenge soon hopefully!

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