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1:45 AM, Monday November 9th 2020
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be looking over your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are looking good. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering on the opposite end. Looking at your ghosted lines and planes I was a tad worried as there seems to be quite a bit of wobble throughout these pages which was making your lines look a bit less confident than they should be. However, after looking at the rest of your submission I'm seeing significant improvement in terms of line quality especially with the organic perspective exercise so it appears you got this under control and it was probably just an issue of getting used to using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder. Great work.
Your table of ellipses are looking pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and you appear to be going for confident smooth ellipse shapes which is great. Of course there's plenty of room for improvement here but you appear to be on the right track. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. On occasion I'm seeing a few deformed ellipses here and there but I don't think it's a consistent problem but still something you can think about. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed Although accuracy is your ultimate goal getting that smooth ellipse shape is your number one priority and you are doing it for the most part. Your ellipses in funnels are running into some issues with tilting off the minor axis that you will want to start thinking about a bit more as well. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned For the most part your ellipses are off to a very nice start but keep practicing them during your warmups as there's always room for improvement.
Plotted perspective looks good nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercise turned out pretty well. Your line quality is improving which is good to see. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were a bit off but this is something that will become more intuitive with practice.
The rotated box exercise turned out really well. You are doing a great job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You also handled the rotations pretty good for the most part. Some of your outer rotations aren't perfect but this is hard exercise and you did quite well for the most part. Nice work. Your organic perspective is looking decent. The really nice thing I'm seeing here is a huge jump in line quality from your first pages of ghosted lines and planes. You appear to have gotten much more comfortable with the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder. Your box constructions could definitely use some more work though so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a really good submission. You showed a lot of growth with these pages. Your line quality in particular improved quite a lot as I mentioned previously. I think you are doing a good job understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
5:10 AM, Friday November 13th 2020
Thanks! Appreciate the critique :)
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