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12:10 AM, Tuesday June 15th 2021
While you did put your best effort and showed and understanding for every assignment given, you're still in major need of more practice in the skills presented. Specifically the part of line confidence where it's way too wobbly and messy to the point where it seems like you completely avoided techniques such as the ghosting method at all. Your ellipses are better in this department but ghosting will still help with cutting down on how many times you go over them through the muscle memory.
Next Steps:
Go through the 250 boxes challenge as your next step to really practice in improving your lines before you jump into the further content
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9:35 PM, Thursday June 30th 2022
As said by Allipses you do seem to have a good understanding of the course content.
Superimposed lines
There is a lot of fraying on your lines. This is okay but it's something to make sure you work on, we want to strive to keep the fraying mostly toward the end of the line and the end of the stroke, you go off course quite early in a lot of these and it. Keep this exercise as a warmup and when practicing experiment with going faster for the whole page or slower for the whole page to help you better understand when you naturally start to wobble.
Ghosted Lines
You seem to understand the concepts fine here, similar to Superimposed lines, just practice going faster or slower during warmups as you do have a bit of wavering in your lines, generally this shows you might be going to slow and are watching the "path of the line" and not the destination. On longer lines I would recommend practicing watching the destination point you have marked and ghost your hand as best as you can to the point before committing with a confident stroke of the arm.
Remember, ghost from the start point to the end point only, don't ghost back and forth, only focus on the "start going to the finish." If that information is unclear please review the content in the exercise, the 'teacher' speaks about this in both the video and the text.
Elipses in planes/Ghosted Planes
Specifically for the planes just keep the previous advice for ghosted lines in mind. The planes look good.
All Elipses Exercises
You seem to have an understanding but you are drawing through your ellipses far too many times. Review the content in Ellipses if you feel you need to, but my suggestion is to review the "things to remember" section in Table of elipses homework https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/tablesofellipses as well as watch the video provided.
Perspective and Boxes
Good understanding of the exercises, please be careful going forward to avoid drawing over your lines more than once. If you need to help yourself see through the mess of lines, try to instead fill in the "visible" section of the box, like the example homework shows filling out one plane of the box to give the illusion of depth.
Next Steps:
You are ready to continue into the 250 box challenge, however, please take note and keep in mind, you should not be drawing over your lines more than once and you should avoid drawing through your elipses more than 2-3 times. As it quickly becomes noisy the more you add to it. As suggested in the critique, review the "things to remember" section in Tables of Ellipses
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