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5:41 AM, Monday March 23rd 2020
Hey! Let’s see~
The straight superimposed lines look good, save for the occasional altered trajectory. This improves a little by page 2, but I think it could still be a little better, so see if you can be more mindful of it. The arcing lines are a little wobbly. Don’t, at all, worry about the guideline. It’s okay to miss it, so long as the resulting line is smooth, and confident. The ghosted lines look good, and the one issue I noticed- the line not starting at the correct starting point- improves by the time you reach the ghosted planes. Said planes look good, too- well done!
The table of ellipses exercise looks good, though I think you could stand to push your confidence a tiny bit further. Similarly, in the ghosted planes exercise, the main goal is for the ellipse to be confident, and rounded, rather than touch all 4 sides of the plane. As we always say: confidence > accuracy. Nice job on the funnels exercise.
The box section is a bit of a mixed bag. Your understanding of the exercises is quite good- you’ve performed well on the last 2, too, and those are meant to be challenging- but your linework suffers. It’s important to remember that a box is simply a collection of lines. If they can be confident in the ghosted lines/planes exercise, they can be confident here, too. Outside of that, the only things that jump out at me are from the organic perspective exercise. Be sure that a box that is overlapping another doesn’t hide its lines, and don’t correct an incorrect line.
Congrats on a solid submission.
Next Steps:
Before I let you move on, I’d like to see one more page of boxes (of an exercise of your choosing), where, despite the magnitude of the task, you take things one line at a time, making sure that all of them are as confident as can be.
2:08 AM, Thursday March 26th 2020
Hi Benj, Thank you for the insightful critique. I have redone a page of rough perspective boxes, focusing on keeping my lines confident to the best of my current ability. Some of my boxes still have a wobbly structure but this is something I will focus on improving with further practice. Thank you for taking the time to write an honest critique.
5:14 AM, Thursday March 26th 2020
Looks good~
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
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10:38 AM, Tuesday March 31st 2020
Hi,
your superimposed lines are good, and your ghosted lines are ok, be mindful of starting them on the dot and not before or after it.
Your elipsis are confident but sometimes on the funnels the minor axis aren't aligned to eachother (not a dramatic error so don't worry)
Your organic boxes are good and you i can see that you ghosted the lines before executing them, your rotated box is good too!
Your other submission for the rough boxes is good!
Next Steps:
Off you go to the 250box challenge! good job!
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