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4:46 PM, Thursday October 26th 2023
Hi, I'm Novus, and I'll be covering your submission critique. Note that I'll be using Elodin's notes on marking Lesson 1 submissions as a checklist. I reject a submission if a section has not been satisfactorily completed, which I consider to be when three or more of Elodin's notes contain mistakes throughout more than a quarter of that assignment, or when the mistake appears consistently throughout that assignment.
With that said, let's get started.
Lines
Superimposed Lines
your superimposed lines look good, they are not wobbly and not Fraying on both ends,
Ghosted Lines
Not much to say here, other than they're good. The lines themselves are smoothly and confidently drawn without arching, and you don't seem to have attempted to repeat lines that you've drawn on, which is good.
Ghosted Planes
There are no Ghosted Planes but I think you use that page on Ellipses in Planes There is Not much to say here also, you did a good job you didn't repeat the lines to correct your mistakes and everything is fine, so I'll consider this exercise completed.
All in all, the Lines are cleared.
Ellipses
Table of Ellipses
Your ellipses are good
Ellipses in Planes
that is good, there is nothing that I can point out.
Ellipses in Funnels
it is also good, but there are some degree issues like you don't rotate the Ellipses but that is okay, But I point it out
All in all, Ellipses is cleared.
Boxes
Plotted Perspective
you've done fairly well here
Rough Perspective
This one is good. Your lines occasionally fail to align to the horizon line properly (as in, your height lines are occasionally not perpendicular to the horizon line, and your width lines occasionally aren't parallel to the horizon), but as this was not only unintentional, this mistake is practically unavoidable in the start and will fade out as you continue to warm up using the exercise, I'll consider it minor.
Rotated Boxes
Ah yes, the rotated boxes exercise. If the 250 Boxes exercise is the crucible, this is the Wakeup Boss of Lesson 1. Your goal isn't perfection, but to minimize your mistakes, and in that, you've done a good job. You've kept your edges close, and at least tried to rotate your boxes. Some of your boxes aren't fully rotated, but on the whole, you've done a good job, and I'll call this part done.
Organic Perspective
I'm not comfortable being overly critical here, because the big mistakes here are all about perspective, which you'll automatically correct by the end of 250 Boxes.
5:30 PM, Friday October 27th 2023
Novus, thank you for the detailed reply! I will keep all of this in mind as I work through the 250 box challenge. Have a good one,
ignitebasics

PureRef
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.