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1. Lines: Lines are fine. There is a bit of fraying at the end, but we all do that. We are told to priorities keeping line smooth and straight, so that is correct.

2. Ellipses: The ellipses loop round as instructed. In the earilier examples the looping is not very accurate (too fast?) but it seems to improve over the excercise and the Funnel are looking pretty good to me.

3. Perspective. Plotted Perspective is fine. With Rough Perspective, you seem comfortable guessing the vanishiing point for boxes closer to the vanishing point. However you seem to have stuggling with boxes that are further away from the vanishing point and even the further away boxes have the same angles. I think that is happened enough I may need looking at. Both the Rotating Boxes and Organic Perspective has issues. Lines that should be converging end up diverging. The rotating box is really hard. I had to redo it a few times before I could make sense of it, and even then the end result was a bit of a mess, but at least it understood by then what I needed to do.

I'm just a beginner, so what do I know? But in your place I'd be tempted to give the rotating boxes another go and get a better feel for how angles of the sides vary based on their distance to the vanishing point. Your Plotted Perspective is fine, so maybe as a warm up you could try doing part of the rotating boxes using plotted perspective and ruler and get more comfortable with how it is meant to work? It's just the thought.

1. Lines: There is a fair bit of fraying at the end on the superimposed lines but the lines are straight and confident. The Ghosted Planes are pretty accurate.

2. Ellipses: The ellipses start pretty rough on the first page of Ellipses Table, with lumps and the looping around overshooting, but they improve massively with each new page. By the time they get tot he Funnel the are smooth and second pass overlaps the first nicely.

3. Perspective: Plotted Perspective is fine. With the Rough Perspective and Rotate Boxes, while the perspective part is fine, the actual lines are rather wobbly, which is odd becasue the lines nice and straight in Line exercise. The Organic Perspective is works really well. Even if not all the boxes are perfect (they never are) the 3D flow comes across really well.

1. Lines: I think you are missing one page of overlapping lines. Also could used some wavey lines and a few longer ones (keeping a the line straight and hitting its target on longer lines is substantially more difficult. Ghosted Planes look pretty accurate (not all of them work out, they never do).

2. Ellipses: I wonder if you are going a bit too fast? I find I need a certain amount of speed to keep the flow, but if I go too fast the accuracy of the second loop goes out of the window.

3. Perspective: Both you plotted and erough perspectives are excellent, as are the rotated boxes. Well done. The organic perspective maybe could have used a greater change in size between the closer and more distant boxes to make it look more 3D, but that's not incorrect as such.

In summary, in your shoes I'd be confident to move on to the 250 Boxes Challenge.

I'm just like excercise behind you, so take this with a pinch of salt.

1. Arrows, quite a few of them look 3D so I think that is a success.

2. Organic Forms - page 2, the one with the contour lines, seems a little rushed, though you are getting the line that curves through the kidney shape form right every time - I know I struggled to get the nicely centred.

3. Textures are great and capture the dark to light gradient

4. Intersecting forms - I think you are following the key guidelines of equilateral shapes, overlapping in sorts of ways and filling the entire page. It is a mixed bag, with some of the shapes looking really sharp and accurate, other not so much. This is exactly what I am finding in my attempt). Bearing in mind we've not really looked at most of these other shapes as part of this course yet, I think this pretty much to be expected. I can't judge the accuracy of the intersections, I am having a lot of trouble with those myself.

5. Organic form intersection - I've nto done this one yet. All I can say is I think the contours came out better than in your Organic Forms excercise.

Don't know if any of this helps, but it's all I've got.

Thanks, that really helps.

Thank you very much. I didn't expect the response so prompt. I fully agree with the given assessment and hopefully over the 250 boxes I 'll try to address how and where the lines terminate. I'll take more care with the scanner settings.