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8:01 PM, Sunday May 10th 2020

Hi snkstrike, good job finishing lesson 1. I'll be going over your work today so let's get to it.

Lines - Your super imposed lines are off to a pretty good start. You are drawing them pretty confidently and from the shoulder. There isn't too much wobbling and you are prioritizing flow. Your ghosted lines are feeling pretty rushed, to be honest. You are missing your dots both at the end points and as well as some starting points. Make sure you are taking your time and ghosting every line and drawing with the shoulder.

Ellipses - Your ellipses are off to an ok start, but there's definitely a lot of room for improvement via practice. While you are drawing through them correctly, the follow up passes are not on top of the initial pass and there's a lot of wobbling going on indicating a lack of confidence from the shoulder. Ellipses are hard and take awhile to learn so no worries, just keep practicing these exercises in your warm ups and you'll see improvement. With your ellipses in planes I see you trying to make contact with the correct points on the planes to ensure they are fit snugly, but your accuracy is a little off. Your ellipses in tables are likewise a bit sloppy, whether it be due to rushing or mechanical issues, but you're doing pretty well keeping things tightly packed to avoid ambiguity. With your ellipses in planes your minor axes are just a bit skewed from the funnel axes but you're doing well keeping things snug within the curved boundaries.

Rough Perspective - Your lines are looking pretty good here. They are confidently drawn from the shoulder and mostly under control. Most of your horizontal lines are parallel to the horizon and verticals perpendicular meaning you have properly oriented boxes with little to no skewing. There are a few times where you are redrawing lines which is something I want to strongly discourage before it develops into a habit. We use ink to force us to plan our lines and work with the results and drawing multiple lines goes against this, causes visual clutter, and brings more attention to areas we are trying to fix in the first place so it is best to not get in to that habit at all. Your converging lines are where we expect them to be and you properly applied your check lines, so good job.

Rotated Boxes - All things considered you did a good job here. It is a tough exercise and you pushed through to completion while keeping things visually clear. In terms of the mechanics of the exercise you did a good job keeping things packed together so you could properly leverage your adjacent lines as perspective guides. Additionally, there are some moments where you were rotating, but mostly your boxes were not rotating so refer to

this gif and study how the rotation is driven by the motion of the vanishing points along the axis. The only goal here is for students to complete the exercise to be exposed to new types of spatial problems and methods of solving them, so mission accomplished.

Organic Perspective - You did not follow the example homework so I will not be going over it at this time and therefore your lesson 1 will not be marked as complete.

Next Steps:

Two pages of organic perspective following the example exactly.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
7:46 PM, Tuesday May 12th 2020

I have finished the two pages of organic perspective I have made a partiall submission in my sketchbook if you could please look at them thank you.

10:02 PM, Tuesday May 12th 2020

Please post them as a reply to this comment

Next Steps:

Post them here please

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:24 PM, Wednesday May 13th 2020
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