5:35 AM, Thursday March 26th 2020
Hey! Let’s see...
Starting off, your lines look good. The arcing superimposed lines are occasionally a little wobbly, so be sure to aim for them to be confident, more so than accurate, as you continue to practice them. In your ghosted lines/planes, I notice a tendency to decrease your speed as you approach the end point. Don’t do that, please- it kills its confidence. Finally, try to use start/end points for the non-diagonal lines of your planes.
Ellipses are a little bumpy. This is particularly the case in the ellipses in planes exercise, where you’re so focused on priority #2: having them touch all 4 sides of the plane, that you forget about priority #1: making sure they’re smooth, and rounded. Though they do improve considerably by the time you reach the funnels exercise, they’re still not quite there yet. Remember that confidence is, at this stage, and always, far more important than accuracy. An ellipse that falls short of or overshoots its bounds is correct, so long as it’s confident. The opposite, is not.
Moving on to the box section, it looks like you used a straight edge for the front faces of the rough perspective exercise. This is incorrect, but not a big deal. The rest of the exercise looks good, but be particularly careful not to correct an incorrect line- it’s a bad habit. Also, I notice that there’s a lot of empty space in your pages. Try to fill them up a little more, please. The frames, in particular, don’t need to be so far apart. Solid attempt at the rotated box exercise. Though the back faces don’t rotate as much as they should, this is fairly well-done. The organic perspective exercise, too, looks good, though I’ll remind you that line-weight is applied to clarify overlaps, is applied locally, subtly, and only to the silhouette (never to the inner lines!)
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I'd like to see 1 more page of the ellipses in planes exercise, where you're particularly mindful of the confidence of your ellipses.