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1:49 AM, Tuesday April 28th 2020
Hi there! Good job in general, I'll point what I can notice so you can keep improving.
First of all, in lines you have a bit of wobble in your lines. In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.
A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.
If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit. Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points. Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.
You've also forgotten to draw 2 things in the ghosted planes. Don't forget to do it on your next ones. Check the examples on the website if you still don't notice what I'm talking about.
Ellipses have a tiny bit of wobble too. Remember that on them as well confidence > accuracy. Don't hesitate to sacrifice accuracy to make them as confident as you can.
Boxes look p good in general, with a few issues.
First one is that you're repeating lines, no matter how off a line is, don't repeat it, keep going as if the lines were correct.
Second one is in the rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.
And lastly organic perspective. Don't forget to draw through your boxes on this one. You should be able to see the boxes, even if they're covered by other boxes. You can add lineweight to clarify their relationship on the line overlaps after. I recommend trying more overlap between boxes on it as well. Perspective on them has issues but you'll work on it on the box challenge, so don't worry about it!
You're drawing a lot on the page, and that's a great thing, keep filling the pages and drawing big!
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Good job! Marking this as complete. Good luck on box challenge!
2:26 PM, Tuesday April 28th 2020
Thanks so much for a thoughtful critique! I really appreciate it. I've been trying my best to work on the line wobbles; I drink a lot of tea so I doubt that's helping. With the ghosted planes, I really should have read more carefully, so that's my bad. I was also a little confused on the organic perspective about whether I should draw through the boxes, since they weren't in the example homework, so I'll make sure to do that next time.
Thanks again!
3:18 PM, Tuesday April 28th 2020
You don't have to draw through each box. (Not drawing the inner corner), which is optional.
But you should be able to see boxes when they are covered by other boxes, which is what might seem confusing. I recommend to draw through always though, It's always great practice!
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