AikyouSatou

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    8:32 PM, Sunday October 3rd 2021

    I can definitely see improvement in your work as time goes on. From Super Imposed Lines to rotated boxes you are hitting your ghosted mark closer and closer.

    When it comes to perspective and especially when we are free-handing or roughing it, you can try to ghost your line once or twice all the way to the imagined perspective point before ghosting the actual length of the line. Even if we aren't marking the actual point itself, you can imagine where it is!

    In the rotated boxes exercise, I think you should focus more on thinking about where each perspective point is in relation to each other. The center box should have vertical and horizontal points to infinity - as you have shown. The boxes next to the center should have perspective points that converge far away - and the boxes farthest from the center have the closest points.

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    8:22 PM, Sunday October 3rd 2021

    You have quite a bit of fraying on SuperImposed Lines exercises. Make sure your pen is situated within the same point. All it takes is a little extra time and this will improve your work on all other exercises. Your lines are very smooth, though!

    This doesn't exactly pertain to any one exercise, but to all of your work. Try to make your goal points for each line a bit smaller. It is difficult to determine exactly where you want your line to go both when making a mark and afterwards when you are analyzing your work. The smaller these points are, the better you can see where you need improvement.

    Ellipses: I can't exactly tell how fast you are making your marks, but my best guess is that you are going too fast. It is important to get fluid lines that don't wobble, but you do still have goals to meet. You want to mark through ellipses as closely to your original loop and you want to meet the guidelines. You need time to process the action. Experiment with how fast or slow you make your marks. Find the balance where you have control and smooth lines.

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