Partial Lesson 1 Submission (7 / 10 exercises)

8:11 PM, Sunday February 28th 2021

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any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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1:28 AM, Monday March 1st 2021

The first thing that stood out to me when I looked over your exercises was that your ellipses in planes are not touching all 4 sides. The assignment specifically says, "Don't worry about anything aside from getting the ellipse to be smooth and evenly shaped, and having it touch all four edges of the plane as snugly as you can manage."

Another thing I noticed was that you are not drawing through all of your ellipses. In fact, you don't draw through most of your ellipses. Again, the assignment specifies, "...you should be drawing through every single ellipse you draw for my lessons."

Additionally, I noticed that your lines are getting wobbly and lacking confidence in the perspective exercises. Don't forget that the boxes that you're drawing are made up of lines, and the techniques you practiced in the earlier exercises (drawing from the shoulder, ghosting, etc.) still apply here.

Also, you should really only the the exercises the specified amount of times. Maybe spend more time on the individual exercises instead of trying to grind them out additional times.

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3:57 PM, Monday March 1st 2021

Hello! So I don't have all the exercises done in Lesson 1, so I'll only critique as far as I am

1) your superimposed lines are good, but some of them fray at both end so be careful about that, I will have one large critique at the end.

2) Your ghosted lines are very good, there isn't much bowing or arching in the lines, no wobble, and you generally hit your mark which is great!

3) You don't seem to be as confident when doing your planes as when you do your ghosted lines, there's a lot of wobbling, and they're quite small, try having them more compact together and bigger, and of course treat each point like a ghosted line.

4) your ellipses are good in the frames, however in the planes they should be touching every side, not just 2 sides, you're trying to make sure they fit perfectly snug inside the planes

5) Your funnels are quite small, and they're all very similar, you should try to vary the length and the intensity of the curve so you get a lot larger ellipses as you get to the outside of the funnel. also VERY IMPORTANTLY I see on a lot of them you're only doing a once over when doing the ellipses. You should be ghosting them and then doing them twice or thrice over.

6) Plotted perspective looks good! can't complin here

7) rough perspective, you need to finish off drawing the coloured lines to find your angles and to see how accurately you got the boxes

This is as far as I am in the lesson, so yeah haha, but the MOST CRUCIAL THING to me, is that you're sub dividing your pages and doing a lot in a little. Do the exercises/homework as they're done in the videos, don't do a load of stuff on one page unless it's a warmup, and if it IS a warmup, don't do your main homework on it. if you're doing one bit of homework, it gets it's own full page, and you ONLY DO FRAMING when it's asked of you, check out other peoples homework either on the discord server or even on the website here to see what I mean. I assume your paper is a4, and if it's not a4 then buy a4 printer paper.

That's everything, Good luck!!

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