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10:55 AM, Monday March 2nd 2020
Hi Ralkarn,
Starting with your lines, you have done a great good job keeping fraying to one end. Your lines are a little wobbly. Make sure you are using your shoulder and trust your ghosting. Maybe during your warm up do some ghosted lines by clising your eyes when you place your pen on the paper so you can get to know what it feels like to not worry about accuracy.
Your ellipses are nice and tightly packed. Remember to only go around them 2-3 times, a few look like you have done more. There are some sharp edges which may improve if you concentrate on your ghosting. On your funnels sometimes the ellipses drift away from the minor axis so keep an eye on that.
Your convergences for your boxes are looking pretty good for lesson 1. Your lines are looking a little wobbly again which is very common. It is easy to het overwhelmed when you are asked to start constructing things. Take the same amount of care for each line of the box as you do with the earlier ones. For your organic perspective you have a good start fir adding depth to the frame. Don't be afraid ti draw boxes both bigger and with more overlaps to really sell the illusion.
You appear to be missing your rotated boxes so before I can mark this as complete I would like you to do that. Otherwise a good start!
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1 page of rotated boxes please.
2:13 PM, Monday March 2nd 2020
Thank you very much for the feedback! As for drawing with the shoulder, I got a bit confused and unsure if I was doing it right. About halfway through the lesson, I tried various ways to activate my shoulder until I felt one that was just right, some of the wobbly lines are due to those "experiments".
As for the rotated boxes, I had already done them but forgot to scan them! I updated the album and posted my rotated boxes at the end.
6:24 PM, Monday March 2nd 2020
Yeah, it can take a while to get used to using your shoulder and I can see that you are getting better at the lines so good job!
This is a pretty good first attempt at rotated boxes. They are nicely placed so you can use neighboring boxes to work out placement and your lines are looking much smoother, although it looks like you have rushed the hatching lines a little. They are well spaced and pretty parallel but they aren't as smooth as the rest. They should be ghosted like every other line. I like to think of them as extra practice. Every line you to take to do well is another line you are learning from.. You boxes aren't quite rotating enough and some of the backs aren't rotating as much as the front planes. Take another look at this part of the lesson https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/rotation. But I would say a really good go. Rotated boxes is really hard and no one is expected to get it right first try (I know I didn't and still don't). It is there to introduce you to concepts of using 3D space that you probably don't have the skill level to pull off just yet.
I think this is definitely good enough for you to move on to the 250 boxes. Don't forget to add all the exercises to your warm up selection and good luck!
Next Steps:
Move on to 250 box challenge.
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