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Ragull

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    1:06 AM, Tuesday May 26th 2020

    Hi Halcyon1,

    I want to congratulate you on completing lesson 1! I noticed that you said you have no prior drawing experience. Nonetheless, you persisted through all of the exercises. Good job!

    There are a few things that I have noticed in your work that I would like to point out.

    In your Superimposed Lines exercise, I notice that you start off with some fraying lines but you seem to correct this tendency later on. On your Ghosted Lines and Ghosted Planes exercises, what I am seeing the most is a lack of confidence in your lines. On your Ghosted Planes exercise in particular, it seems that you were really trying to get the ellipses to fit into the plane. This, of course, would be ideal. However, in an effort to get the ellipses into the plane you have sacrificed confident lines. I also notice throughout your work that many times when you draw your ellipses, you are not quite going around the ellipses a complete two times.

    Taking a look at your Plotted Perspective and Rough Perspective exerises, I think things look pretty good. The biggest issue is, once again, a lack of confidence in your lines.

    On your Rotated Boxes exercise, I see that the spaces between your boxes is not as snug as it could be. In addition, the boxes are not rotating very much at all. It seems that some of the boxes on the outer edges are in the same position as the center box, just smaller.

    Your Organic Perspective exercise looks pretty good. It seems that you are begging to understand the concept and over time the execution will improve.

    What I would recommend is to try the Rotated Boxes exercise again. Focus on confident lines, keeping the boxes snug, and trying to get the boxes to rotate just a it more. After that I think moving on to the 250 box challenge would be great!

    Next Steps:

    Nice job on this lesson. Maybe try this again before moving on.

    What I would recommend is to try the Rotated Boxes exercise again. Focus on confident lines, keeping the boxes snug, and trying to get the boxes to rotate just a it more. After that I think moving on to the 250 box challenge would be great!

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    8:26 AM, Monday May 25th 2020

    Thanks heaps for the critque! I will work on focusing on ghosting for the next lesson.

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