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10:12 AM, Monday September 13th 2021

Hi!

You gone through all of the exercises and it's great.

Still, everyone of them suffer from wobbly lines. Your line marking really lower your overall level.

For example : in your table of ellipses, a lot of them are super-wobbly and not symetrical at all. Small ones, look sometimes like spirals. In your rough perspective, a lot of your width lines are wobbly too. In your funels too, half of your ellipses are not superimposed.

Last thing : in your "organic perspective", some of your boxes are super-long (not cubic-ish), due to one of the "Y" branch too long compared to the other too.

Those two errors make me think you are going a bit fast on the execution. You may gain a lot by taking your time to build your lines with more prep and ghosting.

On the other hand, your perspective are quit good (the mistakes you make are the one expected, especially your "rotated box" exercise is pretty good).

So your work clearly suffer from the wobbliness of your lines.

Next Steps:

Before validating your work, I would suggest you to redo the "ellipses in ghosted planes" x2 exercise, and be super-focused on your ghosting and confident straight line marking. It would make your good work way more solid. No need to redo the rest, perspective notions seem pretty understood in your work.

Good luck!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
2:53 AM, Thursday October 7th 2021

Here are the redo's of the Ellipses in planes. Some of the lines of the planes themselves wobbled on me but I was taking a lot of time ghosting and trying to find my sweet spot. It seems like if I ghost more than 5 times it gets bad because it turns into hesitation and nervousness so I try to keep my ghosting slow and steady and between 3-5 ghosts.

https://i.imgur.com/DHpe8H1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/BWu5i74.jpg

To respond to your other comments. In my first table of elipses I knew that I wasn't gonna be able to make them very symetrical so I was trying hard to focus on just making them somewhat confident and smooth rounds things. Looking back many of them still do look a little wobbly but I'm hoping that was just me getting the hang of things. I am seeing for sure that I could have used more time ghosting on my rough perspective boxes. I honestly don't know why I didn't super-impose some of my cone ellipses, I just don't know what I was thinking at the time.

With the "Organic Perspective" I actually didn't know they were supposed to be "Cubes" and I was thinking just any shaped boxes so I purposefully made some of them long to add dynamic angles. So that was my bad.

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