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10:46 AM, Tuesday February 20th 2024

Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. This confidence translates to your ghosted lines and planes which are looking nice and straight for the most part with only a few little wobbles here there.

Ellipses

Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other. On your first page, there are a few little wobbles here and there that seem to clear up through the second page and into the next exercises.

Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane while remaining confident and not over-focusing on accuracy.

Finally, you're doing a good job lining your ellipses up with the minor axis on your funnels however your line confidence definitely faltered here with significant wobbling present, possibly due to focusing on trying to get your ellipses accurate rather than on a smooth and accurate ellipse. Accuracy will come with time and mileage through your warmups. I also noticed a little section of correction tape on this page, which is definitely a no-no. Remember that these are just exercises and a small errors here and there are to be expected and worked with.

Boxes

On your plotted perspective - you may have noticed some of the back lines of your boxes are not vertical - this can happen when there's slight inaccuracies in the lines used to plot the front of the box not going back to the exact vanishing point drawn. Something to keep in mind, as you will encounter this again.

Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty normal margin of error.

Your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You got pretty close to capturing the full range of rotation, tending to follow the vanishing point of the box you previously put down on the extreme boxes. This exercise is intended as an introduction to certain concepts you will explore further throughout the course, so any kind of success here is a win.

Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise which is starting to create a sense of depth in each frame, though if you wanted to push it further, you could try overlapping the boxes closest to the viewer even more. The boxes themselves are diverging a bit in places, however like the previous exercise, this one is simply an introduction to the concepts you'll explore in depth in the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:12 PM, Tuesday February 20th 2024

Thank you Meta, for this detailed explanation of my practice work.

It was motivational and easy to understand.

I will make sure to review each part carefully.

Now moving onto the 250 box challenge, as suggested.

1:36 PM, Saturday March 16th 2024

Hello again, sorry to trouble you but could you please check if my submission is marked as complete?

I tried submitting the 250 boxes challenge and it seems I need prerequisites to be completed. But if I'm correct Lesson 1 is the only prerequisite...

Thank you.

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7:46 PM, Sunday March 17th 2024

Sorry about that, I must have hit the wrong button - this should mark it as complete, and backdate it to when you submitted your work. You should be good to submit your box challenge work.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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