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9:28 PM, Saturday March 28th 2020

Very nice work overall! Starting with your lines, you're largely doing a pretty good job at keeping your lines straight and consistent, and drawing them with confidence. In your super imposed lines, you mostly maintained a consistent trajectory, with just a little bit of wavering where you noticed you were drifting too far from your intended path. This kind of "steering" midway through a stroke is what we want to avoid, but you're generally not doing it all that much. You also improve upon this considerably with your ghosted lines - I feel the ghosting technique and how it separates the process of mark making into several phases, each with their own priorities, and finally execute your marks without any hesitation both improves your overall control as well as your willingness to commit to a stroke and see it through without changing or steering.

Moving onto your ellipses, I think you're generally holding to that, except for a few places where you show some hesitation at the execution phase of the mark. This can result in a little bit of wobbling or stiffness to your ellipses, which undermines the smooth, even shape that we're looking for. This didn't happen often in your tables of ellipses, but it did start to be a problem in your ellipses in planes where you were more willing to sacrifice the elliptical shape to have it touch all four edges of the plane. This is incorrect however - maintaining a rounded, even shape is our first priority, and we should not be deforming it in order to achieve our secondary goal. Keep this in mind for the future.

Finally, your funnel ellipses are once again quite smoothly drawn, and you've generally done a good job keeping them aligned to that central minor axis line, aside from a few outliers where they slant, so keep an eye on those.

Jumping down to your rough perspective boxes, you've done a solid job of keeping your horizontal lines parallel to the horizon line and your vertical lines perpendicular to it. Your linework does appear to be a little bit shaky though, which suggests to me that you may not be as consistent in applying the ghosting method to these lines, and that you may instead be investing more time into the actual execution o your marks (resulting in wobbles/hesitation) rather than in the planning/preparation beforehand.

Your rotated boxes are very well done. You kept the gaps between the boxes narrow and consistent so as to eliminate any unnecessary guesswork, and covered the full range of rotation on both major axes. Very well done, especially considering how challenging this exercise is for most students at this stage.

Lastly, your organic perspective boxes are a great start. This is another exercise that is intended to be very difficult, primarily intended to introduce you to the concept of freely rotating boxes rather than to test you on them. As such, you're doing fine, though there is room for improvement as well with getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing point. We'll continue working on that in the next step.

So! You've done pretty well, just be sure to keep on top of applying the ghosting method to every single mark you put down, and properly investing your time in the planning and preparation phases, not the execution phase. 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.
2:20 AM, Monday March 30th 2020

hola

Genial muchas gracias, sobre todo el consejo de : invertir adecuadamente tu tiempo en las fases de planificación y preparación, no en la fase de ejecución, que es donde siento que mas falle

gracias

joaquin

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