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8:17 PM, Saturday May 23rd 2020

Your rough perspective boxes are looking much better. You're showing a considerably stronger use of the ghosting method, and your lines are a lot straighter for it.

Your ellipses are a little better, but I'm still seeing a lot of impatience there. As you can see here, I've pointed out a lot of gaps in your work (and there are many others as well). Each ellipse you draw is going to have a specific space allotted to it (usually some kind of boundary on 3 of the 4 possible sides). While not quite fitting your ellipses within those spaces is totally normal, yours suggest that you're less aware of this as a particular goal for this exercise. I explain this a little further in these notes.

I'd like you to try one more page of the tables of ellipses exercise. Take your time with each individual ellipse, identifying exactly the nature of the ellipse you need to draw as your first step, then ghosting through it and executing the mark.

Next Steps:

I'd like one more page of the tables of ellipses exercise.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
12:58 AM, Thursday May 28th 2020

I hope these look better. I apologize for my quick and sloppy tendencies. After going back and re-reading that page, it reminded me that the overarching goal of the exercise is to envelope a selected space with the elipse. My first page on this had some more unfavorable outcomes than I would feel comfortable submitting, so I utilized that as a warm-up page and worked on a second one afterward. If you still see these as anything than successful, please let me know and I will do it again. I just thank you for looking at them and providing valuable feedback, though I do not wish to take up too much of your time.

https://imgur.com/a/UI8vgkZ

4:33 PM, Thursday May 28th 2020

These are definitely an improvement! You're paying much more attention to where your ellipses fall, and you're still maintaining a confident, smooth, even shape to each one. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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