John

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    3:13 AM, Wednesday May 27th 2020

    Your superimposed lines look straigt and confident. You have some decent spread but that is normal and accuracy is not the point of the exercise

    Your ghosted lines show that you have good control over your lines when using the ghosting method and are also confident. You have some arching on the longer lines in the middle, you might draw these unconsciously from the ellbow instead of the shoulder which you should not do. Concentrate on drawing them all from the shoulder and only using the elbow to compensate.

    Your ghosted planes further show that you have decent control over your lines and that you can draw them pretty confident.

    Your ellipses are a little wobbly. It is good that you tried to hold them all in their boundaries but it seems that you sacrificed line confidence while doing so. Especially on the second ellipse page on the right lower corner they get very woobly, but overall they are decent enough and quite a few came out pretty good. It is also great that you tried out different sizes and shapes. Just try to integrate them in your routine and practice them every week. Focus more on round ellipses and then try to hold them into their boundary but do not sacrifice line quality over accuracy.

    In the funnel exercise you kept them aligned to the middle axis which is great and the ellipses here look better than the previous ones.

    You did a good job with your plotted perspective boxes. In the middle frame it seems you made a little accident on the second box from the right but nothing big.

    In the rough perspective your lines arent too far off from the vanishing point and most of them are quite near which is good, but your boxes could be aligned better with the horizon line. Some of your boxes seem very wobbly and so do your lines. The horizontal lines of the boxes should always be parallel to the horizon line and dont forget to ghost your lines so you can draw them straight and confidently.

    Your rotated boxes look great. You were able to rotate them which many people find very hard. You had some difficulties in the corner but overall you understood the exercise and performed it very well. It is normal that you had difficulties with this one because it was there to challenge you. So overall great job with that one.

    Your organic perspective shows that you understand that the boxes become smaller as further away they are and your boxes look pretty good here

    So all in all good job and I would say your lesson is completed with that one. Dont forget to ghost your lines, make sure that you draw from your shoulder and go on to the 250 box challenge.

    Next Steps:

    Move on to the 250 box challenge and repeat the exercises from lesson 1 when doing your warm up exercises.

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
    2:13 AM, Saturday May 16th 2020

    Thanks, I will do that. I already started doing the ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercise daily as a warm up. Maybe I just do too much boxes in one sitting and thats why my lines get more sloppy over time. Will continue practicing my ghosted lines and will take more breaks while doing boxes.

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