hi
i'm here to critique you lesson 1 homework. congrats on completing this lesson.
lines
with ghosted lines and ghosted planes section you seem to be plotting out the lines first which is good. some lines have the arching issues but you can improve these by following the method mentioned before. also use the shoulder pivot for each lines.
ellipses
with ellipses in planes some of the ellipses got a bit deformed as you tried to make them touch the four edges of the planes. the goal here is to get nice even elliptical forms. the funnel exercise is looking pretty good as you managed to keep ellipses aligned with the axis line in most cases.
boxes
i consider rough perspective one of the toughest to tackle in lesson one. you made the major mistake here with ignoring this rule. we're not suppose to draw the lines exactly back to the vanishing point. instead we should make a rough estimation towards the vp.
in the rotated boxes you're drawing over lines a lot. even if a line turns out a bit off keep it as is instead of trying to correct it, this only make things messier. the hatching lines should be placed using ghosting method and with bit more care. same goes for the lineweight.
in organic perspective section each lines should be plotted out with dots. you seem to be doing this some instances but the smaller boxes are looking free handed. also the same thing goes for the lines here as well, no drawovers.
overall, i'd say your attempt was pretty good. you'll continue to improve as these exercises will be part of the 15 min warmup sessions. so i'd recommend moving over to the 250 boxes challenge. good luck!
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Hi, thank you so much for your critique and sorry for the late reply.
I can see your points made. :) I noticed some of them while doing them wrong (but left it as it is as we were supposed to leave it).
I'm already in the middle of the 250 box challenge (now at 137, it's taking me a few weeks lol).
Again, thank you so much for your time. I wasn't even expecting a reply to be honest but this is motivating me to keep going.
Have a nice week!
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