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2:04 AM, Monday January 11th 2021
My main issue with some of these submissions are that you didn't follow the instructions as closely as you could've. This only is a problem as you don't get as much practice, or fully accomplished what the exercise challenges are.
No problems with the super-imposed lines; your ghosted lines could be a little more straighter overall. There are some suggestions on how to improve on making it more straight, as well as just some tips on drawing with your shoulder.
Your table of ellipses don't exactly follow the instructions, which is more just a loss of practicing. Most of the elipses don't really seem to snugly fit within their area, having some space around them, which is what the exercise asks for.
Your ghosted planes are mostly fine - there are some wobbly lines, but I think some practice ghosting lines will help.
Your ghosted elipses are all deformed; the exercise page says that "maintaining a smooth elliptical shape is critical and above all else is your first priority."
For the Rough Perspective exercise, you didn't follow the instructions of plotting red(or any colour that's different from your pen) lines to the horizon line. While this isn't any explicit technique(as far as I know), it's meant to show you how far off those converging lines are from reaching the vanishing point. Also, Uncomfortable states that "there's a lot of value in learning about how the lines themselves behave on their own, as well as coming to appreciate the fact that often times "close enough" is more than good enough."
As for the funnel exercise, I think you can improve on reducing the space between the elipses, and fitting them in between the funnels.
For the rotating box exercise, you did not do the top right corner of the exercise, and as a nitpick, I'd suggest continue to practice the ghosting method for drawing lines.
Next Steps:
I'd suggest re-doing the Table of Elipses, the Rough Perspective exercise, Elipses in Planes, and the Funnel exercises.
Be watchful of following the exercises' instructions, even if it ultimately means taking more time, and being more mindful of using the ghosting method in the exercises, even if they don't explicitly mention doing it in the exercises. The ghosting line exercise suggests practicing it outside its designated exercise as well.
1:48 AM, Wednesday January 13th 2021
Hi, Thanks so much for looking at my work and responding!
You can find the imgur post with the redone work here :https://imgur.com/a/L9Ik89F
For the exercies with elipses, I do struggle with drawing circular shapes quite a bit. Although in this iteration there is improvement, there are still a few deformed ones.
For the Rough Perspective Exercise, I forgot to do some of the lines in the original, but I reuploaded them with it done. I did the lines with pencil so they appear black when I scanned them.
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