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10:35 PM, Wednesday February 28th 2024
Hello Rictov, I will be handling your Lesson 1 submission for today. If you have any questions or feel unsatisfied with my response, please feel free to comment below. With that said, let's go ahead and dig into these exercises.
Lines
You start off the lesson well with your superimposed lines; the lines remain fairly consistent between each line. Fraying begins to occur as the lines get longer, nothing to worry about; that will improve with practice. Next up are your ghosted lines, which overshoot/undershoot slightly but otherwise look great.
Ghosted Planes & Ellipses
Now onto the ghosted planes and ellipses. Clear planning of your lines is present, and you seem to be very accurate in each line. The ellipses shown are smooth and are clearly drawn over more than once. Additionally, you reach all four edges of the plane most of the time.
Table Of Ellipses & Funnels
Moving along to your table of ellipses, consistent lines are present, and most ellipses are drawn through at least twice. Although I would like to mention that ellipses tend to float, leaving noticeable space between. In the future, ensure all ellipses are fitted as snug as possible next to each other within the bounds of the table. Your funnels have little to no tilt and you understand the importance of the central minor axis. Nice execution on your ellipses overall.
Plotted, Rough, & Organic Perspective
Starting from plotted perspective, the back corners are slanted, but don't be worried; this is pretty common and as you progress towards the 250 challenge you'll learn where to estimate back corners. Your boxes within the rough perspective remain in one-point perspective, and your understanding of the ghosting method shines true here as you keep lines smooth during the plotting stage, nice job. Line extensions are correctly taken from each corner of the box using a ruler and reach the vanishing point fairly accurately. Pressing ahead, your rotated boxes have clean lines with little space between them but also appear to converge effectively. You also seem to be missing the corner boxes in quadrants 1 and 3 . Just some small nitpicks. Lastly, your organic perspective boxes hold consistent lines, and you show clear intentions with the ghosting method. As you progress through pages 1 and 2, you begin to experiment with box orientation as you develop spatial reasoning. The only thing I'll say here is that box size doesn't really increase as the path approaches the viewer. Next time try exaggerating the scale more so it's clear which boxes are closer or further away.
Overall great job, you understand the importance of line confidence and met the goals for each exercise.
Next Steps:
Remember to take these exercises into your warm-ups (10-15 minutes), and you can move on towards the 250 Box Challenge. Good Luck!

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