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3:55 PM, Sunday May 12th 2024

Hello! Good job finishing the lesson. Let's get it critiqued!

Starting with the lines

You did Superimposed Lines well. No fraying at the start point, and eventually very little at the end as well, and very confident.

Ghosted Lines&Planes: pretty great. Only the slightest of wobbles, which will improve with more mileage, although it always helps to stay confident in your execution over accuracy for now. No increased issues in Ghosted Planes, which makes me think you took your time with the exercise. Good job!

Moving on to ellipses

In your Tables of Ellipses you drew through the ellipses and tried to fit them inside the borders and against each other. You seem to have drawn through a lot of these more than the requisite 2-3 times; I see you stopped that as the exercises go on, so that's good. Very nice Ellipses in Planes, with only a few deformed ellipses. Those are probably deformed because you were too conscious of trying to touch all sides of the plane, which can be helped by reminding yourself that a smooth, even shape confidently executed from the shoulder is more important here.

In Funnels you did well in drawing through your ellipses and placing them snug against each other and the funnel sides. Some of these aren't aligned with the minor axis, I think this is mostly because the axis itself isn't centered well between the arcs, so that's something to keep in mind for the future.

And finally, boxes

Plotted perspective is well done, very minimal slanting in back edges, which makes me think you took your time aligning the ruler.

Nice Rough Perspective as well. You did well in keeping the faces of the boxes rectangular and extending the depth lines to the horizon line. I see some wobbling your linework here that wasn't present before. This may be from being more cautious now that you're constructing boxes, just remember that these are the same ghosted lines that you should execute with the same confidence and plan as thorough as before.

An excellent attempt at the notorious Rotated Boxes. You did the core setup correctly, drew through most of the boxes, applied rotation well and kept your gaps tight and consistent. All required boxes are present as well, the only minor thing here is that you forgot to draw through the outermost corner boxes, i.e. draw them with "x-ray vision". You should do that for consistency's sake.

Organic Perspective: Good rotations, no leaning into dramatic foreshortening or any diverging edges. Try to scale your boxes more with depth in your warmups, i.e. draw the further boxes smaller and the closest one bigger. Linework looks like it lost a little bit of confidence here again with some light wobble and drawing over your lines twice. Keep the execution of your strokes confident and your ghosting thorough no matter the task, and leave the resulting stroke be as it may. The time to avoid mistakes is gone once the pen touches the paper.

In conclusion: Honestly, a very well done submission. I believe you learned the material well and are ready to move on to 250 boxes.

Next Steps:

Add Lesson 1 exercises to your warm-ups pool and move on to the 250 boxes challenge.

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9:04 PM, Sunday May 12th 2024

That is absolutely perfect! Everything is great! I would recomment not to go over your ellipses too much, but everything else was great!

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 Box Chaklenge! Good Luck!

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