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2:35 AM, Sunday April 5th 2020

Hi Cantaperme,

I hope you are well and staying safe. I can tell you worked hard on this lesson, be sure to keep that up and keep up that work ethic of pushing forward even when it's hard.

I have a few comments, but much of them have to do with line quality and developing your confidence!

  • In the overlapping lines exercise, be sure to be careful and place the pen at the same exact starting point each time. If they lines fray, they should be fraying at the end point, not on both ends. Take a look here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6caore5xmjddow/Screenshot%202020-04-04%2022.22.43.png?dl=0

  • Line ghosting is hard, especially at the beginning. You will come to get used to it with time.

  • In the ellipses in planes exercise, I noticed you were hesitating a bit with the ellipses, since they're a bit wobbly. Don't worry too much if the ellipses come out of the planes. It's more important to confidently execute on your lines so they don't look wobbly. You will get more accurate with time.

  • Similarly, with the lines on the boxes in the rough perspective exercise, your lines are wobbly because they were drawn a bit too slowly/carefully. Again, don't worry too much if the lines don't hit perfectly on the points you draw. It's more important to develop confidence and good line quality.

  • On the boxes on a string exercise, I noticed you drew a sad face and probably felt badly about it. Don't worry, it's a challenging exercise. You will improve if you follow the exercises and continue to develop on your line quality.

I think those are all my comments. Most of all don't give up. I want to be sure you don't feel discouraged and instead think "Fake it till you make it". If you can lay down the lines, both straight and curved, confidently, you will be well on your way.

Next Steps:

You are mostly done. I would say before you move on to the 250 box challenge, I want you to do two pages of the line ghosting exercise and focus on confidently executing, making sure your lines are being 1) drawn from the shoulder 2) confidently, smoothly executed.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:26 AM, Sunday April 5th 2020

That was really sweet, thanks for the kind and honest review

My new ghostlines . I do think i struggled less this time

1:41 AM, Saturday April 11th 2020

Great! Keep the ghosting motions in mind and keep moving forward :D

Next Steps:

Move to the 250 box challenge

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