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7:59 AM, Friday March 8th 2024
hello! i’ll be providing some feedback for your submission:)
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superimposed lines, ghosted lines, ghosted planes
your lines look nice and neat, good job starting them carefully from the same point, and keep them straight and confident
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ellipses
you’re drawing your ellipses nicely and confidently. take note that the recommended technique is the draw through two times, but i notice that you might be doing more than that. i don’t think that is an issue for now though.
ellipses in planes look good.
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funnels
most of your funnels touch the intended edges well, some have a small gap in between, though this is to be expected. you’ll get better with placing them more accurately over time!
ellipses align to the central minor axis line well.
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plotted perspective, rough perspective
good work with the plotted perspective, they look great!
as for rough perspective, make sure the front and back faces of the boxes have horizontal and vertical lines (some of them are wobbly, or don’t run horizontally / vertically). since we’re working with one point perspective here, lines that aren’t converging toward the vp will be parallel.
to help with this, make sure you’re plotting the points in the right spot (you can correct them at this stage) and then ghost your lines before you draw them. i see that you’ve done this much better on the second page!
rotated boxes look good!
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organic perspective
great job with keeping your lines nice and straight, and nice hatching as well. these boxes are looking nice in general, with parallel edges converging toward their own vp as expected. some boxes have quite dramatic foreshortening but as this is fine to me.
overall, looks a strong submission to me! i’ll mark it as complete. feel free to move on to the 250 boxes challenge, all the best!
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move on to 250 boxes challenge
6:55 AM, Monday March 11th 2024
Awesome! Thank you so much!
ellipses
Yip, I was doing these three times and it became a habit which I have fortunately broken. To my eye my later practice sheets are looking much better now.
rough perspective
"i see that you’ve done this much better on the second page!"
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