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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.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 3 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
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,

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