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3:16 PM, Monday August 31st 2020

Hello, and congratulations on completing your first lesson!

I'm a beginner myself, looking to polish his knowledge through feedback giving. So do excuse my less than expert opinions on the matter. :)

== LINES ==

Super imposed lines: Overall, good job on the exercise! Do watch out for wobbling in your longer lines. They are a lot more challenging as our arms are not used to making lines that long in a consistent manner. Remember that this exercise is all about confidence over accuracy. Avoid course correcting half way as it will wobble the line. With practice you'll defitnitely get better.

Ghosted lines: Good! There's a lot of confidence and consistency with your strokes. Most of your lines starts and ends exactly at the dot, which is a very good! Take note of the very slight wobbles at the ends of the dots. Sometimes it's better to draw through the dots in order to achieve very smooth confident looking lines.

Planes: Good job here! Again your lines are very consistent and flows well.

Summary: Your lines are very consistent and confident! Do note the slight wobble that occurs in some of your lines. Which might be due to slowing down or course correcting half way.

== ELIPSES ==

Tables of elipses: Watch out for deformed and wobbly elipses. Be sure to use ghosting to build up momentum and speed as you ghost the shape of the elipse. And when committing to line, trust your instincts and let the speed carry the drawing through. It's also a good idea to turn the paper at an angle where your arm is most comfortable making the motion, depending on the axis of the elipse you're making. Good job on varying up the sizes of your elipses.

Elipse planes: Your elipses show improvements here! Good job on containing the elipse within the planes with accuracy. Some of the elipses still show wobbliness, so definitely continue practicing your elipse ghosting and drawing throughs.

Funnels: Similar to the previous exercises. Ensure to build up speed during ghosting to avoid wobbliness.

Summary: Prioritize confidence and smoothness over accuracy. Once your elipses are looking smooth, accuracy can be developed more strongly ontop of it.

== BOXES ==

Plotted perspective: Overall a good job! Very cleanly executed.

Rough perspective: Make use of as much space as possible within your frame. This ensures that you have breathing space for your lines. And allows you to explore a wider range of angles. Keep up the good habit of using dots to plot your ghosted lines.

Rotated boxes: https://imgur.com/a/iauByeR

The boxes near the edge are a real challenge for sure. As the boxes rotate away from us, the front face ought to get smaller and more squashed into perspective. I highly recommend closely observing Comfy's homework example on how the peripheral boxes are done and learn from referencing it. Being able to hit those tricky angles will really develop your understanding of boxes and perspective.

Organic perspective: https://imgur.com/a/Nhnr7DD

Good attempt at this! This is one of the hardest exercises in lesson 1, so good job on finishing this. Don't worry too much about perspective mishaps as this point. As you will have ample time to practice it when you move onto the 250 box challenges. A minor feedback would be to experiment more with the sizing of your boxes as it recedes back into space.

Summary: Overall pretty good. Do work on learning the trickier angles as it'll be tremendously helpful in developing your perspective sense.

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That's all! Once again congratulations of finishing your first lesson! I apologize if my feedback is a little crude as this is my first feedback. :)

I recommend revisiting the rotated box lessons (NOT TO REDO THE ASSIGNMENT) but to work on the box angles (ones near the edge) which you were having troubling drawing.

Your next step would be to move on to the 250 box challenge and lesson 2!

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11:10 AM, Monday August 31st 2020

Organic Perspective: Experiment with overlappping the boxes

Tables of Ellipses: Don't overlap the ellipses and try going over them only twice

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