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4:56 AM, Sunday December 6th 2020
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out very well. You are using the ghosting method to really good effect to get confident linework and although your accuracy can use some work that will come with mileage so don't worry about it.
Your table of ellipses also turned out quite well. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and are doing a nice job focusing on getting smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over very nicely into your ellipses in planes. Once again your accuracy could use some work but it's good that you are focusing more on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Accuracy is the ultimate goal but it will come more with consistent practice. Your ellipses in funnels look fine I'm not seeing any real issues here. Your ellipses are on the right track although there is still room for improvement so keep practicing these during your warmups.
The plotted perspective looks good nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes turned out okay. I'm noticing a tendency to redraw lines which is a habit I would like you to break. Try and put down a single line and stick with it even if it's slightly off. Otherwise your linework is looking pretty confident for the most part. You did a nice job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations quite off but this will become more intuitive with practice.
Your rotated box exercise was a pretty good attempt! You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You didn't quite nail your rotations which is perfectlly fine given the difficulty of this exercise. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercise feels a tad rushed I have to say. Your linework while it does look confident feels a bit sloppier than some of your earlier exercise. I'm gonna let this slide and not have you redo anything but that might not fly in later lessons. Your box constructions could definitely use some improvement so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a pretty good submission. Outside of the last exercise feeling a bit rushed I think you showed some nice improvements here. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey pretty well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge!
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The 250 Box Challenge
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