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11:35 PM, Saturday March 11th 2023
Super Imposed Lines Exercise
Draw straight and confident even if you miss. Frays are fine at this stage
A tip that'll help with ensuring your lines are both straight and accurate. Place your pen at the starting point, look where you want to draw, and then move your hand confidently to that point. You might need to start off with shorter lines and work your way up to larger ones but you'll notice the difference if you practice over the course of a few sheets of paper.
Obviously, you should be ghosting before you lay down any line but this will help with straight lines especially
You may also be sitting in an awkward position or not using your arm correctly
Ghosted Lines Exercise
Same issue as before. Not straight and I see some correcting at the end. Keep it straight and confident even if you miss
Ghosted Planes Exercise
Some improvement in your straight lines. Still some wobbliness visible
Table of Ellipses Exercise
Much improved flow and confidence in line work. Good job
Ellipses in Planes Exercise
You seem to have an issue with the top left section of your circles. You might be having a few issues here
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Ghost your lines. If you notice a weird hiccup in your ghosted lines you can prevent them being made when you make your mark
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Make sure you are sitting in a good position where you can make full use of your elbow and shoulder. Don't let yourself get stuck using your wrist, especially for circles and ellipses
Other than that, I think you understood the assignment. However, you are still lacking confidence in your strokes
Funnels Exercise
Much improved flow and confidence here. Don't be afraid to vary the angle of your ellipses
Plotted Perspective Exercise
Very well done
Rough Perspective Exercise
Well done. But remember to bring the lines to the horizon line only, don't waste time overshooting it
Rotated Boxes Exercise
Well done. Just remember to use perspective lessons from earlier to help guide how the boxes should lay in relation to one another. They will help a great deal
Organic Perspective Exercise
You should be imagining a box in free floating space with this exercise. Here, you should see if you can put the VP off in imaginary space and draw towards it for each side of the box and then the same for each additional box. The 250 box exercise will help you immensely with this
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I won't ask for revisions here. But you should practice ghosting your lines as I think it'll help
Overall, good work!
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