Domo

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    12:03 PM, Wednesday November 25th 2020

    Thank you so much for taking the to critique! I know I'm 5 days late to this, but I really appreciate it.

    Yes, the 2 boxes that I've marked as 1 and 2, in the rough perspective exercise is where I got confused lol. I wanted to start over but I remembered not to get caught up in perfectionism, so just carried on.

    I'm looking forward to trying out the rotated boxes exercise with a variation like you said. I found it to be the hardest and most time consuming out of the lot, but it really got me thinking about planes in rotation.

    I finishing up my 250 challenge today (YAY) and I've learned a fair bit about rotation that I struggled with in the rotating boxes exercise.

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    11:00 PM, Friday November 13th 2020
    • Your superimposed lines flow very nicely, even if there is a lot of feathering towards the end. That should get better with time, and you can always warm up with this exercise.

    • Ghosted lines and planes - same again, you have a nice flow. However, with those two I can see that you tend to stop the lines too early. I do this a lot myself, and I feel like forcing myself to almost overshoot helped me with this. it's basically a matter of small adjustments, you'll be ok.

    • Rough perspective - you definitely have more wonky lines here. It gets much better in the rotated boxes though, so I don't think it's that important, just worth noting.

    • Elipses - consistent angles, degrees and they fit tightly, good job. Just work on having them not overlap, that's the biggest problem I could see.

    • Rotated boxes - honestly you did great here, apart from maybe the corner-most boxes, which are kinda meant to be the hardest. I think you should start doing the 250 boxes.

    Next Steps:

    Work on better convergence with boxes and planes. Also try to get less overlap in your elipses and make them cleaner. I think you should get into the 250 box challenge and continue to use these exercises as warm-ups before a session. You did well so far and there's no massive mistakes, and since perfectionism isn't a thing here, you should move on.

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    10:40 PM, Friday November 13th 2020
    • When drawing ghosted planes, I've noticed how you get the inner diagonal lines correct (corner to corner, but then draw a cross right in the middle of the planes, which is incorrect due to perspective. The way you can fix it is by having this cross run through where the diagonals meet, inside the plane. This spot actually marks the true middle lines of the plane, in perspective.

    • Your elipses are pretty good and fit nicely next to each other, except that some of them are running at a different angle. Try to keep that angle consistent throughout.

    • Rough perspective shows that you can definitely work more on converging lines. A lot of them are way off the VP.

    • I think that you're ready for the 250 boxes, just based on how well you did the rotated boxes exercise. You could always improve the linework as some of them are wonky, but that can be done throughout the challenge.

    Next Steps:

    Mark the center lines of the planes correctly, not in the middle but instead where the diagonals meet. Apart from that, move onto the 250 box challenge. You can always come back to these exercises as warm ups before you start a session of drawing your boxes, so you don't need to "perfect" any of them at all.

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