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9:56 AM, Sunday February 23rd 2020

Hey there, TA Meta here to review your work, let's get started.

Beginning with your superimposed lines, the straight ones are looking nice and confident. You've done a good job throughout lining your pen up with the starting point however your curves were significantly less confident, possibly due to a preoccupation with accuracy, so make sure you execute these with as much confidence as possible.

Next, your ghosted lines and planes look nice and confident and whilst your planes are overshot more than your lines, they are also a lot straighter, so keep up the good work here and accuracy will come with time and practice.

Moving onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a good start. You've got a significant amount of wobble here as well as some oddly shaped ellipses - these do improve over the course of the two pages however you should practice these in your warm-ups, focusing on getting a confident flow going and engaging your shoulder fully.

Your ellipses in planes are an improvement over the previous exercise and I suspect it's because these are much larger and force you to use your shoulder. You've done a good job getting them to fit inside the planes and you haven't sacrificed accuracy to do so, which is great to see.

Finally, your funnels once again show the wobbling to them that was present in the tables. That said, the alignment of your ellipses to the minor axis are pretty good for the most part with the exception of a few that skew off the minor axis slightly, particularly towards the ends of your funnels.

Next up is your rough perspective and this is looking pretty good! You've done a good job keeping your horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. Your line confidence has taken a slight hit here, which we see quite often with this exercise, so make sure you take the time to plan each line of your box. Your convergences aren't too bad, and where they miss the mark, it tends to be in a predictable way, with your vanishing point shifting up and down the horizon line slightly.

Your rotated boxes are looking quite nice - the gaps between your boxes are pretty consistent, your line confidence here is quite good and you've managed a fair degree of rotation on the right hand side. The left hand side is slightly less successful, with some of your boxes tending to follow the vanishing point of the previous box rather than sliding the vanishing point along the horizon. That said, these last two exercises are designed to introduce you to some new spatial concepts that you can take into the 250 box challenge and we don't expect students to nail them the first time.

Finally, your organic perspective compositions are looking pretty cool. You've varied up the size of your boxes in such a way that it conveys a good amount of depth in the scene, as well as overlapping some of the bigger ones. It's good to see you've used line weight to clarify these overlaps, however make sure you always apply this with the same amount of confidence you would any ghosted line.

Next Steps:

Keep working on your line confidence and make sure you take the time to plan your lines out. Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
9:54 AM, Monday February 24th 2020
edited at 10:14 AM, Feb 25th 2020

Thank you so much!

edited at 10:14 AM, Feb 25th 2020
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