7:19 PM, Sunday March 24th 2024
https://photos.app.goo.gl/GzkDMC7tHipfHgYU9 terribly sorry about that. This one should work
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chrislaser54
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6:10 AM, Sunday March 10th 2024
Thank you so much! I'll be sure to apply the feedback going forward and get those boxes done.
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9:18 PM, Wednesday February 21st 2024
Hello, I'm Chris and I'm gonna do my best to give some feedback.
Lines
For your Superimposed lines, there's a bit too much wobbling going on. Just remember to focus on the endpoint of the line and confidently move your entire arm to that point. Draw confidently and if you miss your mark that's totally okay and will go away with time and practice so long as you keep training that muscle memory.
For the ghosted lines, the same sort of wobbling persists albeit a bit less. As before, its totally okay to miss your mark so long as the line is confident.
The ghosted planes seem to show some improvement with the line confidence. Good job so far.
Ellipses
The tables of ellipses look very confident with minimal gaps, and are clearly ghosted and drawn through. Well done.
No major issues on the ellipses in planes
On the funnels, there seems to be some difficulty with aligning the middle of the ellipses to the central axis line. That should go away with practice, but make sure to focus on that in your warmups.
Boxes
The plotted perspective demonstrates an understanding of how the vanishing points should work, no major issues on that front.
Same deal with the rough perspective. This shows a clear understanding of what you should be practicing.
That said here there are still some issues with line wobble that could be ironed out, primarily on the shorter lines. Make sure to be ghosting very thoroughly before executing your mark.
On the rotated boxes, the space between the boxes seems to be pretty inconsistent which makes it more difficult to use the neighboring elements to judge perspective. There's also an issue of while there seems to be some understanding of how the vanishing points move, its not consistent with all the relevant edges of the box. There are places where the lines should be converging toward that point, but are instead converging to seemingly different points especially on the corners (though very understandable as those corners can get pretty confusing).
No major issues on the organic perspective. The only minor thing is that some of the lines look parallel to each other which wouldn't happen where there are no infinite vanishing points. That said, it still demonstrates an understanding of the exercise and of the perspective required.
In Summary
Overall, this work demonstrates a strong understanding of the lesson material, but some exception with the rotated boxes exercise. Remember with the rotated boxes that you should first and foremost try to keeep the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, that way it is much easier to judge their orientation and rotate accordingly. Alongside that, keep in mind which lines should be converging toward which imaginary points to make sure they don't diverge.
Before I give the go-ahead to the 250 box challenge, I'm gonna ask that you revisit the rotated boxes exercise keeping in mind the gaps between boxes and which lines converge. I'd be happy to look over that again once its done. I would also recommend focusing on some line exercises to get your strokes looking clean and confident but that can just be a part of your warmup.
Next Steps:
I'd like you to redo the rotated boxes exercise, focusing on the spacing being consistent and the lines converging toward the new and imaginary vanishing points as they rotate.
10:40 PM, Monday February 19th 2024
I added the second one to the album
9:52 PM, Monday February 19th 2024
Oh that's my bad. I'll get on it. Should I resubmit once its done?
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