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3:51 PM, Wednesday April 28th 2021
Hi there softly! Overall you've done a pretty good job, but I'll go over all the exercises and point out the issues I can find so you can keep improving, let's go!:
Starting with your lines they're very confident overall, and I'm happy to see you're prioritizing confidence over accuracy just like you're asked. One thing I want to say is that your points on the ghosted lines and planes are a little bit too big, try making them smaller so it's easier to assess your accuracy on the exercise. I also would have liked to see you trying more longer lines in the ghosted lines and planes exercise, so try doing some larger ones on your warmups from now on. On the superimposed lines exercise you've also only done straight lines, try doing some curves from now on as well.
Moving onto your ellipses you're doing a very good job as well at keeping the ellipses confident regardless of accuracy, only some of them are a little bit wobbly, specially the smaller ones and the ones on the funnels exercises. Make sure that even if they're very small you always ghost them and draw them confidently with your shoulder.
Other than that the ellipses fit pretty well on the table of ellipses, the ones on the ghosted planes are still very confident regardless of them being on a plane, and the funnels ellipses are pretty well alligned overall, good job!
Lastly on your boxes you've done it pretty well as well, but I want to comment on a few things:
-Sometimes when you draw lines that are off, you repeat them trying to draw over the previous line. When you get a line off like this don't redo it, move on to the next line as repeating it will only make the drawing messier and it will encourage bad habits.
-Lines on the rough perspective are also a little bit tilted sometimes, so remember that before drawing any line you can check if it's actually perpendicular or parallel to the horizon line in case it's a height or a width line, it helps to get the lines better.
-Rotated boxes has lines between corners of boxes pretty close, and the boxes are rotating so good job! Just keep in mind the repeating lines thing I said earlier.
-On organic perspective you've sometimes not drawn starting and ending points for all of your lines; regardless of how small the boxes are, or if the lines go outside the page, always start every line by drawing the points, otherwise you won't be able to apply the ghosting method correctly.
-About the boxes themselves on organic perspective, they have minor perspective issues but overall you're making a good attempt at it, so good job! Just keep in mind the repeating lines issue here as well.
Overall like I said you've done a pretty good job so I'm marking this as complete. Make sure you focus on not repeating lines from now on and in drawing the starting and ending dots of every line no matter how small or where that lines is. Keep up the good work and don't forget to do warmups from now on. Good luck on the box challenge!
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
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