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4:19 PM, Tuesday September 1st 2020

Most of your pics are taken from a bad perspective, you might want to pick up a paper scanner to help with that. Your superimposed are decent, they'll simply need more practice to tighten them. Your ghosted lines all seem to overshot the mark. Try letting off the pen early, that could end up helping you. The ghosted planes are all very samey, you should be more experimental with the dot placement. You also need to work on your line accuracy. Your ellipse tables have the same problem. Make the line in the middle of the table more freely curving or jagged. You also need to vary up your minor axises. You ellipses on planes need more varied plane shapes. Once again, your funnels lack variation, please try to be more experimental with your minor axises. I can't see anything wrong with your plotted perspective. Your rough perspective is missing an entire step, you need to add the depth lines. These show the accuracy of your lines going to the VP and without them it's very hard to grade your skill. Some of your rotated boxes, like the ones on the edges, are not rotated enough. Your organic perspective is pretty bad. You need more boxes, in more sizes. For actually making the boxes look like boxes, try to spend more time ghosted your lines meeting at the VP.

Next Steps:

You need to redo your ghosted planes, ellipse tables, ellipses on planes, funnels, rough perspective, and organic perspective.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:47 PM, Thursday September 10th 2020

Hello! Thanks for giving your time to critique my works. Your advice about trying to let off the pen early really helped me out on my ghosted planes.

Here is my revisions to ghosted planes, ellipse tables, ellipses on planes, funnels, rough perspective, and organic perspective.

https://imgur.com/a/w9f9vnO

7:35 PM, Saturday September 12th 2020

Sorry about the wait. Your planes are better but you still don't have enough per page, they should all be touching each other like a jigsaw puzzle. Those ellipse tables look greatly improved, good job. Your ellipses on planes fit much better but could still use some work. I like what you did with your funnels, well done. Your rough perspective is now correct, same as your organic perspective. If you need help with those, remember to visualize the VP and make all lines converge.

Next Steps:

Move on to the 250 box challenge while still practicing lesson 1 exercises for your warm up.

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