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12:50 PM, Saturday July 3rd 2021
hey, you did really well on lesson 1!
lines:
you have superb line control. your superimposed lines are very neat, especially with those longer lines, which I know are more difficult. on your ghosted lines, you seem to undershoot or overshoot their distance by a hair each time. that's not really a big deal considering their confidence and accuracy, though. your planes are very neat as well. the ellipses within the planes can be tricky but you did well.
ellipses:
once again great line control. however with the tables of ellipses you seem to litter them with smaller ellipses to fill in the gaps, which makes them kind of hard to look at. the point isn't to fill a box with as many ellipses as possible, it's to exercise/demonstrate control over the character of your ellipses. your funnels don't have that issue, they look good.
boxes:
your boxes, both with a ruler and freehand, look good. you experimented slightly with the dimensions of the boxes which will prove useful. rough perspective is bound to be imperfect. with both of these though i wished you experimented with horizon height a little more. gorgeous, controlled rotated boxes page although the corners of the boxes do seem to stray from each other - they should be directly adjacent to each other, really tight-knit. you did well on the organic perspective exercise, those boxes look great.
Next Steps:
you're done with lesson 1. buckle up for the 250 box challenge.
1:02 PM, Saturday July 3rd 2021
wait, you're missing your ghosted planes. my bad. if you didn't do them, make sure to do those, you shouldn't encounter any problems. if you just forgot to upload them i would post an updated imgur link
4:48 PM, Saturday July 3rd 2021
Thank you so much.
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