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8:31 PM, Sunday February 14th 2021
A pretty good attempt with some minor flaws. Let's look at the break down:
Overlapping Lines
Almost perfect. Your straight lines arc considerably, but you have the confidence and always start in the right place. Try using your shoulder joint to consciously push back against the curve of your elbow joint!
Ghosted Lines
Highly accurate, but quite wobbly. You need to take into consideration the speed and flow you learned from the previous lesson and apply it here. That's what makes the world go round. I think the problem is that you're afraid of overshooting, which is understandable, but also totally acceptable in this stage of your development. I would have like to see some greater diversity in lengths, too! You seem to have that down from the last lesson, so what happened?
Ghosted Planes
Your trademark wobble carries over from the previous exercise, but there appears to be some flow in there as well? Are you actually ghosting? It seems like some of the lines were drawn in one shot in an attempt to not miss the mark, but overall I think you did well.
Table of Ellipses
Oh dear. Whilst you do have a good number of sizes and styles of ellipse, they're so wobbly it hurts! You did draw through the ellipses several times so well done with that, but otherwise you need to speed up and make sure you're using your entire arm for the motion. Ellipses can smell fear, remember that.
Ghosted Planes with Ellipses
You opted to do additional planes for this exercise, which look very good, but my goodness. Those ellipses! You really need to speed up and not worry about hitting all the points on the exterior edge. Having the ellipses flop over the edge is fine and totally expected at this stage.
Funnels
Much better. The wobble is slowly working its way out, but you need to keep that smooth flow going or else it's gonna come crawling back. The minor axis of each ellipse is identical, which isn't correct. You're supposed to increase the size of the minor axis with each ellipse, the thinnest one being flush with the centerline. Otherwise you didnt' go outside the lines much and there's lots of variety so this is OK I suppose.
Plotted Perspective
It's OK. You've understood the material, but a bit more variety in dimensions and point placement would have been nice.
Rough perspective
Very sparse. Your lines are wobbling again, and in many cases you missed the mark entirely. It's OK to use the vanishing point as reference, you're just not supposed to draw a line all the way back there. Also, make sure to shade the back plane so the forms stand out from the background! It helps a lot with marking!
Natural Perspective
OK, so the boxes are the same dimensions which is good, but the change in scale needs to be more gradual. This can be fixed by drawing more boxes, and making those boxes overlap. The convergence of each box also stays entirely flat throughout and doesn't change at all. Boxes that are farther away should converge less than boxes closer to the eye. Load up any free game engine and throw a bunch of box meshes into a scene and you should be able to see this happening as you budge the camera around. This can be a tricky concept to get your head around, but don't worry. It'll come with time and practice.
Rotated Boxes
Well done on completing this notoriously difficult exercise. Did you use the original as reference?
Next Steps:
Before you draw anything from now on, attempt 2-3 random exercises from this section of the course for around 10-15 minutes. The point here isn't to complete them or to get better at the exercise, the point is to get all the bad marks out of your arm early so you can use the good ones for things that matter. Move on to the 250 Box Challenge, and remember to remind yourself of why you're doing this by completing your mantdatory 50% fun drawings. I wish you the best of luck.
9:41 PM, Sunday February 14th 2021
Thanks a lot for the detailed review of my homework! I'll try to work on the wobbly lines and ellipses, I might have underused ghosting as well, as you pointed out. Thank you for the insight into my drawings.
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