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11:36 PM, Saturday May 2nd 2020
Lines
Your lines are slight wobbly. Wobbliness in a line stems from confidence issues, ghost thoughtfully a few times, and then run over your ghosted line swiftly without giving it much thought. It's okay if you overextend past your inteded point slightly, accuracy comes with practice. For the intents of this exercise confident and straight lines that miss the mark are preferred over wobbly lines that do fit in between the intended points. You have arcing on some lines. You can fix this by mentally adding an offset to nullify the arcing. If you notice that your lines tend to arc upwards, try to actively arc your lines downwards very slightly to negate your upward arcing, and vice-versa. Lastly, it is very important that you don't repeat lines. Even if your line has missed the mark slight, its okay just let it be and move on.
Regardless, I think you done a good job with most lines, just work on the issues and mention above and you'll have lines so straight, you can even beat a ruler! :)
Ellipses
Some of your ellipses are wobbly, to fix this, you have to remember to commit to the stroke. Ghost initially, and then make sure you follow your ghosted movement through and through, even if the ellipse seems wrong, don't try to correct or adjust whilst making the ellipse.
In the funnels exercise, some of your ellipses are aligned with the minor axis, which something you need to mindful. Also try varying the degree of your ellipses at times.
Great job in general though!
Boxes
Great job! You've understood the concept of vanishing points and have intended to place your lines so as to follow the vanishing point, albeit, you've missed the mark quite a bit in a few places, which is only natural considering you've just started. Some of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise are quite elongated and divergent, and still have to add line weight to clarify any overlaps, other than that, well done!
Next Steps:
To conclude, I think you've done a good job overall, you just need to work on your line confidence, your boxes will get better as you progress through the challenge. Make sure you practice your ellipses as you progress through the 250 box challenge. Keep forging ahead. :)
11:37 AM, Sunday May 3rd 2020
Hi,thanks for your time,i will make sure to take your remarks into consideration next time,just want to ask if you have any critiques about my rotated boxes homework because i'm not satisfied of the result at all,
thanks;
6:29 PM, Sunday May 3rd 2020
Hi, sorry for the late reply!
I think you've done a good job of understanding where you place your vanishing points, which is a great first step! You just need to work on your line confidence for now so you can get straighter lines.
It's okay to be dissatisfied with the result, this is an extremely difficult exercise, and the onus of the exercise is not to produce a pretty drawing :P, its to build up on those aforementioned homework exercises, your boxes will get better as you proceed through the 250 box challenge.
Good job on pushing through and finishing lesson 1.
11:02 AM, Tuesday May 5th 2020
thanks for reply
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