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1:18 PM, Friday February 19th 2021
Hi MosselMemory, I've checked your submission.
Starting out by your lines, you did a good job on them, there is a lot of visible improvement between the first and second page of super imposed lines, I like that you are trying to go for the page-long lines. In most 1 lesson submissions, as people go through the lesson their lines get more wobblier and less confident, especially when they get into boxes, it is not your case, in some cases it happened but you mostly remain consistent throguh the lesson! Remember to always think about confidence>accuracy when doing lines.
Moving on to your ellipses, the key to them is applying the ghosting method and going through them only twice, I'm seeing you are going through them twice already, good job on that! Now, the ghosting method is very important to avoid the wobbliness of our mark in general (this includes normal lines, ellipses and more organic lines), I'm telling you this because I see that you are struggling with this. Again, always remember the rule; confidence>accuracy, and the way to get confident lines is to ghost them, accuracy will come with time and practice.
Now, getting more specific, I'm seeing that your ellipses are super imposing on their edges, this happens in both your funnels and table of ellipses, take a little longer with the ghosting method, I know this is a tricky issue, but you will get better at it with time. Another thing on your funnel exercise, remember to try to maintain the minor axis align to our ellipses.
First thing about boxes is to be subtle with your line weight, you will see a little more of this on the 250 box challenge. Overall you did good on your rough perspective and on your rotated boxes, though I'm seeing that you are being messy in some of your lines, it comes back to the concept we've been talking about, whenever you miss a line don't try to correct it with another one, it will get messy. Instead, focus on the first line using the ghosting method and if you miss, well at least you did it confidently :).
I like that you started rotating more your boxes on the second page of organic perspective, good job!
Now, I'm gonna mark this lesson as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Now comes the 250 Box Challenge, It's not that hard, just scary. This challenge it's all about two things: constancy and determination. Don't try to rush through the challenge, take your time and try to make the most of every box. Try to do it regularly, if you can daily, go for it! I started it out by doing 10 boxes a day (5 boxes it's my personal best amount for each page, though don't do more than 6) and when I got the hang of it I did 15, and then continued like that up to the end. Remember, slow and steady.
Use all this boxs to practice! Don't feel down if you don't do them perfectly at the beginning, if you learn from your mistakes and push through, you will improve.
12:08 PM, Saturday February 20th 2021
Thank you very much for your feedback! These tips help out a lot. I made a little checklist of them for when I do these exercises in the warming ups.
You're right that I correct lines sometimes. I noticed that I have trouble with accuracy, and then it is very hard to resist correcting things, but I will try to stop myself from doing so!
One thing, what do you mean about the second page of organic perspective? I didn't notice that I rotated them more, or do you mean to say that they get more distant in the back?
1:06 PM, Saturday February 20th 2021
I'm glad you found my critique useful!
What I meant is that in the first page, the boxes you did looked similar on their rotation, while on the second one, you drew them like they where rotating as they closer, which seems it happened naturally!
11:02 PM, Sunday February 21st 2021
I think I see it now! You're right. That must've happened naturally, because I didn't try to do that consciously. I'll see if I can keep it in mind from now on, and I will definitely focus on the other things you've told me!
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