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4:27 AM, Saturday June 26th 2021
1). Lines: Some of your superimposed lines strongly fray towards the end of the pen strokes. This is espeacially evident with your with your longer straight lines and your curved lines. This isn't uncommon it just means you still have trouble using the shoulder pivot. Try to focus on making the movement with your shoulder by ghosting the movement, instead of making the mark on the page. Your lines will be straighter, and more accurate
2). Ellipses: On some of your ellipse assignements in planes page while they are confident you messed up by only making the the pen stroke once or twice once or you must do it at least 3 to 4 times.
- Boxe: your issues with boxes are pretty standard they mostly stem from your lack of knowledge of perspective and your and lack of knowledge on how to properly construct them(this will be covered in 250 box challenge). Your rough perspective boxes are still quite wobbly. It's a difficult assignement, but remeber when drawing lines build the muscle memory by ghosting the motions with your shoulder. Additional when doing organic persepctive try to make the flow of boxes easier to follow you can do this by going over your lines again to emphasis which are the forground and background boxes.
Good job you are ready to move on to the next assignment
Next Steps:
Add superimposed lines to daily warm-up
4:46 AM, Saturday June 26th 2021
Just some stray thoughts about your critique:
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fraying at the end of a line isn’t really a problem with superimposed lines; fraying at the beginning is a sign of impatience. Accuracy will come with more practice and focussing on it will just distract from drawing confident lines.
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ellipses should be drawn through 2-3 times at max, more than 3 just makes it messy
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Rough Perspective boxes tend to be wobbly. The width lines should be parallel to the horizon and height lines should be perpendicular to it. I think the boxes are fine for the stage the person who drew them is at.
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It’s good that you emphasized the ghosting method
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About the Organic Perspective: Yes the part of the flow line that is closer to the viewer should be thicker, I interpreted it as though you meant the boxes, make clearer exactly which lines you mean.
7:02 PM, Saturday June 26th 2021
Thank you for the critique. I thought that you had to draw though the ellipses 2 times so I went back and it does say 2 too 3 time heres the paragraph.
"This is something I'm pretty adamant about - you should be drawing through every single ellipse you draw for my lessons. That is, draw around the ellipse two or three times before lifting your pen. Two is ideal in my opinion, but three is also acceptable."
Small error but no worry were all human, and I will work on my shoulder pivot.
*Thank you again*
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