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1:01 AM, Thursday July 23rd 2020
Hi Dragonxrose! I'll look at your work to see if I have some critique to give you.
Lines exercises:
It’s pretty good! Your lines are confident and straight, and you already have a pretty good accuracy. One thing though, on the first exercise, you had a tendency to fray on both ends. Looks like you fixed that habit on the planes exercises, though. Good work!
Ellipses exercises:
I've noticed two mistakes. For one, you drew over some ellipses more than 2 or three times. Try to keep it to a minimum.
I also see some wobbling. Remember, you can ghost your ellipses too. If you do, you'll reduce wobbling and improve the smoothness and confidence of your ellipses.
That said, you did a great job on funnels. Keep it up!
Boxes exercises:
Not much to say on Plotted Perspective. Very clean and very well done.
Rotating boxes: Most of your lines make senses, which is a geat indicator that you think in 3D. On thing though, I see little rotation on the boxes after the second in each axis, as they seem to all converge to the same vanishing point. Here's an example to illustrate what I mean This exercise is very hard, so don't feel bad about it. Everyone makes that mistake.
Organic perspective: Very good! The only thing mistake I see there is some overlapping lines. Every line should be drawn only once.
You did great overall. I wouldn't ask for any revisions, but keep my comments in mind for the the future. I deem you ready for the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
Move on the the 250 boxes challenge. This challenge takes time and patience, so don't let it drag you down. Remember to warm up before every session with any of the previous exercises. I recommend not ignoring the ellipses exercises for your warmups, as you'll need that practice for lesson 2.
7:44 AM, Thursday July 23rd 2020
Thank you for the feedback.
I struggled with the ellipses, perhaps because i was using a combination of this method and an a previously learned one (which is more suitable to sketch with light pencil lines andmore forgiving).
I'll keep practicing them.
The rotating boxes did disorient me after a while. i was trying to make sense of the neighbouring lines and perhaps closed the gaps too much/ placed them to close together and losing the rotation.
Funny that you say the organic perspective is very good, because i had no clue as to what i was doing and still find it the most confusing exercise. Perhaps because it is mostly guesswork. but i was more happy with the last attempt as i did seem to make much more spatial sense in my opinion.
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