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6:38 AM, Wednesday July 1st 2020

Hey! Let’s take this one exercise at a time~

Starting off, the superimposed lines look solid, if at times a little wobbly. Remember that our goal is for them to be confident, and of a consistent trajectory. If their accuracy suffers as a result of this, it’s of no concern. Though I commend you for packing them as tightly as you do (the more practice the better!) I think that that might have been part of the problem, as, if you had been as loose with them as we’d like you to be, the page would have been a big mess, but that would’ve been fine, too. Conversely, give yourself some more room to breathe, next time- you’ll be practicing these daily, anyway. The ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, though I notice that you’ll occasionally decrease your speed as you’re approaching the end point, to make sure you don’t overshoot it. In the times that you stop short of it, you’ll sometimes extend your lines to it, too. Both of these are incorrect. As per the 3 levels brought up in this exercise, priority #1 is for our line to be straight and smooth, and only if it is do we allow ourselves to be concerned with its accuracy. Doing that at the cost of it is having our priorities backwards. (As for the line extension issue, that falls under automatic reinforcing- each line is drawn once, and only once.)

In general, your ellipses look quite confident, but the number of times you draw through them seems to be arbitrary. As per the instructions, you should be drawing through all of them 2-3 times- no more, no less. Let’s talk specifics. In the table of ellipses exercise, your ellipses are confident, and of a consistent degree/angle in a frame. They do a good job of touching all 4 sides of the frame, too, save for one instance in page 2 (row 4, column 1), where they’ll float inside of it. The ellipses in planes exercise looks great, too. They do a good job of touching all 4 sides of the plane, but they’re never so concerned with it that they lose their roundness- that’s the way to go. Finally, in the funnels exercise, the minor axis properly cuts each ellipse into two equal, symmetrical halves. There’s exceptions to this, of course, but that seems to be as a result of the construction of the funnel, rather than anything else. Spend a little more time planning it, and that aspect of it will improve, too.

Nice job on the plotted perspective exercise! The rough perspective exercise, too, is nicely done- your line-work is confident, and your convergences on point. Be mindful of the automatic reinforcing issue I brought up earlier, however, as it’s a problem here, too. The rotated boxes exercise looks great. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and demonstrate a full range of rotation. The inclusion of line-weight/hatching does a good job of cleaning it up, too- nicely done, across the board. Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks great, too, and I was especially pleased to see that you’d drawn through your boxes. This is not necessary for this exercise, but it's always nice to see. You’ve been mindful of their foreshortening, as well as their size, both of which do a good job of communicating their flow. The only thing I’ll mention is in regards to the line-weight, which should be applied locally (that is to say, to the part of the box that’s overlapping the other, rather than to the entirety of it), but that’s fairly minor. These boxes look great, and they’ll look even better once you’ve had a chance to practice them further. I’m marking this lesson as complete, so go ahead and do just that!

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250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:11 PM, Wednesday July 1st 2020

Thanks very much for the fast indepth critique, i'll take onboard what you said about the line exercises.

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