Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:54 PM, Saturday June 5th 2021

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Hey guys, just finished lesson 1, critiques are greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!

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3:40 PM, Thursday June 10th 2021

Overall looks good! The only things I would say is that in the Funnels exercise, some of the ellipses are completely aligned with the minor axis. This is normal, of course, but it's just something to keep in mind if you choose to incorporate the exercise into your warm up.

Also, in the organic perspective exercise, it seems that you sometimes redo your lines. Try not to do this (unless you're going over the lines to add thickness). Instead of redo lines that didn't come out very accurate, take your time plotting the lines and ghosting them. This will increase the chances of the line coming out how you want it.

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250 box challenge

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8:59 PM, Sunday June 13th 2021

Hi, thank you very much for the input. One thing I wanna ask, for the Funnel excercise, did you type it wrong and actually mean to say some of my ellipses don't aligned with minor axis? Because I thought they're meant to be aligned with it.

And yes I'm guilty for redoing those organic perspective even though I shouldn't. I'll excerise the ghosting method more while doing the 250 boxes excersice. Once again, thank you for the input, cheers.

3:19 PM, Thursday August 5th 2021

Sorry for replying so late. Yes, I meant to right that they don't align with the minor axis.

Best of luck with the rest of Drawabox!

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