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6:24 AM, Tuesday April 14th 2020
Hey! Nice job on clearing lesson 1! Crits come in a little slow these days, I hope you've the patience to wait a little for crits to come. Nevertheless, here's mine!
On your lines: Its good that I see confidence in your work. That tells me that you're doing a great deal of consciously not using your wrist actively. Of course, the lines aren't perfectly straight. So, this tells me that you might be mixing some pivots, resulting in some arcs and curves. If it helps, try to fully recgonise the movement of your shoulder by locking your elbow (initially) and getting a feel of what the shoulder movement looks like. Then, you may be able to recgonise any "deviant" movement. That said, accuracy is not too much of a concern for now, so its not world-ending if you can't reach point A to B exactly.
Ellipse-wise, I can't really fully crit it. You're missing your pages of the table of ellipses, and as such I can't fully comment on it. From what I can see, however, the main thing is that you're drawing through your ellipses too many times. Remember that you should draw through your ellipses 2 times ideally, with 3 times being the absolute, absolute maximum. Some of your ellipses don't look too confident, so do remember to hold confidence above accuracy, as with the lines. Funnel wise, I think the ellipses are relatively aligned to the minor axis, so that's good!
On your boxes: I think they're pretty good for the most part. You seem to have a good grasp on the idea of perspective. I will note that in general, line weight should be applied by a single superimposed ghosted line, rather than several. I actually really like your organic perspective. It shows a good grasp of the idea of how close=big. I also appreciate how the string can move in and out of the plane, I don't really see that too often in homework submissions. The one thing I'll note is that you should draw your boxes fully, then use line weight to establish dominance in the boxes.
Overall, I think you've done a pretty decent job. I just want you to patch up a few things before moving on, namely...
Next Steps:
The 2 pages of table of ellipses. Clear them up, remembering to use confidence in your lines.
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