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8:03 PM, Tuesday January 26th 2021

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels page appears to be missing from this submission. I'm assuming it's done and you just forgot to upload it. I'm going to need to see that before I can mark this as complete. Otherwise, your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing these during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. Once again this is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be straight up and down. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise was clearly a bit of a struggle. One thing that would have helped you here would have to been to just draw this exercise a little bigger. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes but your gaps were mostly consistent until the outer edges when this started to get away from you a bit. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/guessing You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are solid for the most part although there are a few wonky ones in there. You seem well prepared for the 250 box challenge. Nice work.

Overall his was a really solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm still going to need to see that page of Ellipses in Funnels before I can mark this complete.

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Missing Ellipses in Funnels

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8:49 PM, Tuesday January 26th 2021

Thank you so much for your critique. The rotated boxes exercise definitely did have me banging my head on my desk. Here's the funnels exercise. I was removing accidental duplicates from the original upload and I guess I deleted that one on accident.

4:30 PM, Wednesday January 27th 2021

Okay, these looks fine for the most part. I think your are perhaps a bit too concerned with accuracy though and it's causing you to deform your ellipses somewhat. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed This is likely happening because you are too worried about accuracy and are probably slowing down your stroke to compensate. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory of the motion you build up while ghosting and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but don't get discourage as it will improve over time with consistent practice.

I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

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