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5:51 PM, Tuesday September 15th 2020
Congratulations on finishing the lesson 1 homework!
Lines: Looking good. They appear straight and confident with control.
Ellipses: Overall looking good in terms of shape. I notice a little wobble/deformation in some of them, so just make sure to always be drawing from your shoulder in a smooth, confident motion. It looks like you are working with a smaller sketchbook and I think you did the tables of ellipses way too small. It's impossible to get the proper shoulder drawing motion if you are working on such a small scale. Rather than doing four pages of very small ellipses to equal two pages of larger paper as the assignment recommends, you should be using those four smaller pages to draw a smaller amount of larger ellipses per page. I recommend redoing at least a page or two of tables of ellipses with more space to work.
Boxes: Great rotation on your rotated boxes exercises. In fact, it looks almost too perfect. Make sure you are not sacrificing practicing your skills in favor of creating an attractive exercise. At this point in the lessons, you should always be drawing from your shoulder and using ghosted lines. In the organic perspective exercise, you've created a sense of depth with scale but you haven't used overlap at all. Take another look at the example homeworks from the lesson or other community homeworks to see how others have pushed overlap to create depth - even sometimes having the front boxes extending out of frame. I recommend trying this exercise at least one more time and overlapping your boxes in front of each other as they move forward in the image.
Next Steps:
Go ahead and move on the 250 box challenge, though I did recommend redoing a couple exercises I won't require you to post them here. I think overall you got the point of the exercises and are ready to move on, as long as you are drawing with your shoulder. You could try doing them as a warm up before a drawing session.
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