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5:18 AM, Tuesday April 11th 2023

Hello JoeToTheThird, firstly congratulations on completing Lesson one, now lets have a look at your attempt.

Lines:

You Superimosed lines are having a bit of fraying at start, which can be due to not planning properly and not putting the tip of pen at the correct point or rushing too much, you can try slowing down a bit with proper planning before making a mark, and do make good note of using your shoulders to draw as stated in Lesson text and video. It is really difficult at first and it takes time getting used to, so don't worry about it it will get better over time. Same for those little bit of wobbling and arching in lines, it will take time to get used to drawing from shoulders, wobble means hesitation, you can tackle that by not thinking much, making the mark at optimum speed and not correcting your trajectory while drawing the mark, let it go smooth as our primary objective for now is to have a smooth consistent stroke. But I shall also tell you to not grind as well for this, regular deliberate warmups with good rest is the key. As for fraying at end, its quite constrained as well so that is a good thing, inaccurate sure, but that will get better over time.

Your Ghosted lines are really executed with good confidence, so we can already see a great improvement here in line confidence, your accuracy is good as well as your line is ending within a good range of the end point. A little bit of wobble here and there and that tiny bit of inaccuracy is not to be worried about for now, you are doing good, and it will indeed improve with regular warmups.

As for Ghosted planes, again, most of the lines are drawn with good confidence so kudos, and apart from things mentioned earlier, I have to say, even though I can see that you have placed a starting and end point(dots) for most of the outer lines of planes, but as for the inner ones, either they are too small for me to see or they were not marked at all so just to be sure I will point this out that, starting a line with a starting and ending dot is important for applying the ghosting method, and that it should not be skipped. We are aiming for an intended planned mark here which is achieved by proper planning , ghosting and not doing aribitrary freehand lines.

With that said, we have seen a good improvement in line quality so that is a win in my book, do take care of the aforementioned points for your future warmups and exercises.

Ellipses:

Your Table of ellipses is done nicely and most of the ellipses are drawn confidently and drawn over at least twice which is also a great point. Further in each section of the table, you have taken care of keeping most of the ellipses with same or similar degree and angle, and are mostly bound within the area, that is they are touching the adjacent borders or ellipses, which in my opinion is really good attempt. As for slight inaccuracy and wobbliness, do not worry, as mentioned earlier with time it will improve a lot.

Same goes for your Funnels exercise, good confident strokes which are drawn through at least twice, and the minor axis(the middle line) is also bisecting some of the ellipses into equal halves which is another good point, but do take note of this while attempting warmups and future exercies to keep the minor axis in middle so that it bisects the ellipses into two halves.

Again, same goes for Ellipses in Ghosted planes, good confident strokes overall, and do not worry about hitting the boxes if they are not doing it right now, try to be as accurate as possible but having a confident stroke is our priority and the accuracy with improve over time with deliberate practice nonetheless.

So overall, the ellipses section was done nicely with good confident strokes and have been drawn through atleast twice.

Boxes:

The boxes are difficult at first, so again kudos for attending them nonetheless.

And apart from things mentioned above:

Your Plotted Perspective is done nicely.

Your Rough perspective, you have taken good care to keep the width parallel to the horizon and the height perpendicular which is yet again a good point. And again, not to worry about accuracy that much right now. In a certain box, I can see double lines, I am not sure as if its an attempt to correct the initial mark or its an added lineweight over the top, so just in case I will mention that "Repeating lines. No matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should kept the line as it if were correct and move on.".

Your rotated boxes, it turned out pretty well. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps consistent. While the rotations here aren't perfect still this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons or the boxes challenge to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

Finally the organic perspective, besides the points mentioned earlier, it is a really good attempt, kudos. And I will again just add this regarding lineweights "Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines." for future reference.

With that said, its an overall good attempt, we can see a good improvement in line quality as well, as for the things I mentioned above, do take note of them while doing your future warmups and exercises, it might take time sure, but improvement will be there, just stay regular!

Next Steps:

Congratulations, now you can move towards the famous 250 box challenge.

Some points before moving on:

  • Do regular warmups, they do wonders, even if you think you won't be able to draw much, then also try to squeeze atleast five minutes per day for warmup, while keeping the aforementioned points in mind for your exercises.

  • Do not hesitate to revisit lesson zero, or the lesson texts and videos if you have questions or want to recall about the exercises and warmups.

  • Do follow the fifty percent rule, you might enjoy it or you might not even feel like doing it but do it nonetheless, you will appreciate its value over time.

  • Do not isolate, regularly post your updates in the appropriate section or the appropriate lesson channels on discord to get feedback on the work in progress.

  • And to take care of your health and sleep(This is the most improtant point to take note of).

With that said, my best wishes for your future endeavours, have great time.

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8:34 PM, Tuesday April 11th 2023

Genuinely was really stoked to see this pop up in my notifications. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this!

8:55 PM, Tuesday April 11th 2023

Happy to be of assistance and godspeed to your art journey.

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