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2:02 PM, Thursday May 19th 2022

Hello Bluebill! Congrats on finishing lesson 1! I'm Strauss and would be pleased to critique your work, hope that they can help you one way or another.

I’ll divided this into 3 major section, let us get into it:

Lines

  • Super-imposes Lines look nice, being executed with confidence (which is the first and foremost CORE thing to achieve good mark-marking). There’s fraying at the end but as long as it’s on one-side only (meaning that you took your time to ghost every single line with care and precision), you’re good to go!

  • The Ghosted Lines, too, are confident, though there’s a few line that have slight change in trajectory & missing the initial end-point, it’s minimal (and can be trained overtime so don’t worry!) and most importantly, like I said above, confidence is key, and you nailed it well.

  • For Ghosted Planes, I can see some wobbly lines here and there, but overall okay!

Ellipses

  • For Ellispses in Planes - Sometimes your ellipses either aren’t touching the corner or went over the base plane, but your ellipses are all being executed with confidence, so good job here! For ellipses, we prefer their smoothness/roundness over accuracy, just a heads-up for you.

  • Tables Of Ellipses, overall good! Your ellipses are being executed with confidence, super-imposed them 2-3 times, and fit them tightly/snugly within the table bound.

  • The Funnels also looking great. Lines are confident. The minor axis being placed correctly, properly cut the ellipses in half.

Boxes

  • Plotted Perspective: Solid work, you also use hatching in the first panel to emphasize the planes that are facing the viewer, not mandatory, but it’s a nice touch.

  • For Rough Perspective: Lines are a bit wobbly, but overall great! Here’s a rules of thumb: "width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon”

  • Rotated Boxes : Very great actually. I’m impressed! You don’t leave much space between the boxes, and you seemed to folow the instruction fairly well. Of course, if I’m being nitpicky, there’s lines that are wobbly, there’s line that are not really perpendicular to another or adhere to other lines, but those stuff I’m mentioned are minimal, and mistakes were bound to be happened. Overall, this is one of the hardest exercise in Lesson 1, and you nailed it well. Great job.

  • For Organic Perspective: solid work.

Overall, you did great! You can now head to the 250 Box Challenge. Using (any) Lesson 1 homework as 15-30 minutes warm-ups is recommended. Good luck Bluebill.

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge.

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6:51 PM, Thursday May 19th 2022

Thank you so much for your critique! Yeah I definitely need to work some on ghosting lines. I think my confidence has improved but I still tend to undershoot or go slightly off trajectory. I also want to improve on time efficiency though I know I shouldn’t rush too much that my work suffers. I took some pretty long breaks with this lesson but for the 250 box challenge I want to make some progress daily.

Thanks again for the extensive feedback!

7:03 PM, Thursday May 19th 2022

Haha no worries, you will have plenty opportunities to practice with your mark-making skill, i'm sure of it! And yes, you should not rush things by any means, even if it would take a long period of time.

Oh and for the 250 Box Challenge, i advised you to do around 6-12 boxes (1-2 pages of A4) if you wanna draw boxes daily! That's how i approached this challenge a few months ago. Not too many, but not too little. Though, it's just my advise, it's up to you to choose whether to take it or not! Remember that your mental health is the most important thing. Try not to push yourself too much.

And no problems, helping people makes me happy. Good luck mate!

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