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1:00 AM, Tuesday July 26th 2022
Hi FunkyMills, thanks for submitting lesson 1.
2 pages of superimposed lines:
Looks good, the only suggestion I can make is to place your pen down at the starting point of a line and then confidently make your mark toward the end point of the line. This will help reduce the amount of variance of where your superimposed lines begin (i.e. they should all roughly begin at the same point)
1 page of ghosted lines:
Same advice here, it looks like you put the points down and then your line often doesn't touch both of the points. I find placing the pen on the start point and making your mark toward the end point tends to help with that.
2 pages of ghosted planes:
Lines look nice and confident and almost all of your lines converge at the centroid of the rectangle, very nice.
2 pages of tables of ellipses:
These look great.
2 pages of ellipses in planes:
These also look great, nice job drawing through the ellipses. I did see one or two that don't touch all sides of the rectangle, otherwise they are done well.
1 page of funnels:
Nice job, don't be afraid to further decrease the degree of the ellipses toward the center of the funnel. There is definitely a noticeable decrease in degree as you move toward the center, so you're doing it right.
1 page of plotted perspective:
Nice job, however you don't need to be so heavy on the line weight. If all edges are bold, none are bold ;)
2 pages of rough perspective:
Less confident lines than other exercises. Make sure you are using the ghosting method. Don't be afraid to do a 15 minute warmup of superimposed lines before starting. You can draw out the corners (vertices) of the boxes with the dots before doing any lines, that will help because you can take your time to make sure the perspective is correct. You will get plenty of experience on the 250 box challenge, don't worry.
1 page of rotated boxes:
Really good job on a really hard exercise!
2 pages of organic perspective:
Well done. Make sure to draw through the boxes so you can see the 3D-ness of each object. (I don't think the example hw showed that, but all exercises are supposed to include that).
Next Steps:
Go ahead and tackle the 250 boxes challenge!
5:00 PM, Wednesday July 27th 2022
Hi ntm0110, thank you for the critique. I’ll be sure to take it into account when doing exercises and warmups.
I hope you have a nice day!
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