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3:59 PM, Wednesday September 2nd 2020
Congratulations on finishing the lesson 1 homework!
Lines: I am seeing some wobble and chicken scratch on your lines in the ghosted planes exercise and the rough perspective exercise. However, some of your lines in the ghosted lines exercise are quite nice. Perhaps you are getting too wrapped up in accuracy, causing you too slow down and add wobble - focus on drawing confidently from your shoulder, and focus on confident lines over accuracy at this point. Try doing warm ups with the ghosted plane exercise to work on this.
Ellipses: On ellipses in planes, your ellipses are taking on a warped look as you focus too much on making the ellipse touch each side of the plane. While you should be trying to touch the sides of the plane, your focus at this point should be on a well formed ellipse, drawn confidently from the shoulder. If you are getting a warped ellipse that stretches to touch certain points, then you are drawing it too slowly and painstakingly. Your ellipses in the table and funnels are much nicer. Try bringing that same method when you draw the ellipses in the planes - I recommend that you do ellipses in planes as a warm up exercise.
Boxes: I would recommend redoing the rotated boxes exercise, as I see you've missed some of the boxes and some are not rotating as they should be. It is a difficult one, but I think you would benefit from another pass at it. Your organic perspective exercise came out well and I think you are ready for the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge. Work on conquering line wobble with ghosted planes and ellipses in planes as a warm up exercise before your drawing sessions. Try giving feedback to other students on their lesson 1 homework.
9:12 PM, Tuesday September 8th 2020
Wow, thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback Fatalgray! Really appreciate it, your feedback was kind, specific and actionable.
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