Lannpha

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    11:39 PM, Tuesday September 22nd 2020

    Lines

    I think your lines are pretty confident and well-planned. They do have slight wobbles here and there, but this can be improved with more practice making confident ghosted lines.

    Ellipses

    Again, your ellipses look confident. You drew through them multiple times and you did a pretty good job of maintaining the bounds, which is great! However, I did notice some small wobbles particularly towards the beginning and end of your stroke, so that might be a worthy point of focus for later on. Also, your middle-bottom funnel's minor axis doesn't cut the ellipses in half, but the rest of your funnels are much better with this.

    Boxes

    For the most part, your boxes look pretty good. You did a great job nailing down the Rotated Boxes, which stood out to me, and the convergences on the Rough Perspective. One thing I'd note is that you can use line weight (going over the initial strokes again), particularly for Rotated Boxes and Organic Perspective to clarify box relationships.

    Next Steps:

    Congrats on finishing this!

    I don't think you have any major issues understanding the concepts, so it's safe to say that you can move on to the 250 Box Challenge.

    Like always, be sure to take the time you need to plan things out and make confident marks.

    Some things you might want to focus on when you warm up:

    • Line confidence when you start and stop, sometimes there was more wobbling/jerking in those areas

    • Using line weight (this is tied in with line confidence, but it helps to clarify forms)

    Again, congrats on getting through it and best of luck in your journey :)

    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.
    4:44 PM, Wednesday August 12th 2020

    Yeah, I feel like I definitely autopiloted my way through some of the boxes, not really converging towards VPs but eyeballing angles. Breaking it down to 1-2-3 is something I'll have to keep in mind, instead of trampling through without giving the boxes a bit more thought.

    Thanks for the critique :)

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