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8:21 PM, Saturday January 2nd 2021
Overall, I deem this to be an impressive attempt. Let's go over it point by point:
Overlapping Lines
A very good attempt with a lot of variations. I'm not sure why you marked the start and the end of the line with a circle. That was not part of the lesson material. Though you follow the line well enough, there is some noticable wobble coming from your strokes that could very easily be put down to inexperience. When you attempt this exercise again in your own time, make sure you're using your whole arm to deliver strokes more quickly, but don't rush. Finding the exact speed takes a lot of experimentation, but it's worth doing.
Ghosted Lines
Excellent work. Good job on filling the page. Lines are very subtly wobbly which might indicate you were slowing down to hit the mark. Don't be afraid of overshooting so long as your lines are confident. Accuracy comes later.
Ghosted Planes in Ellipses
Pretty standard. Planes are good but ellipses are wobbly. You seem to have the tightness down, just make sure you're being more confident. You don't actually have to be that accurate with the ellipses so long as they're not wobbly.
Tables of Ellipses
There's noticable improvement here. Well done for sticking at it and for using all of the available space. Remember to keep a consistent speed and to ghost your ellipses before you draw them.
Funnels
Excellent. Grasped the concept very well. Keep an eye on that minor axis!
Plotted Perspective
Good job here. You used the correct method, but nearly all of your boxes look the same. Try some more variation.
Rough Perspective
Probably your weakest homework. There are noticable mistakes here. Lines in the boxes aren't confident, and the vertical lines of each box are rarely straight. In one point perspective, such lines should always be parallel with the long edge of the paper, unless that box is rotated in the z axis.
Rotated boxes
Very good. This was a difficult exercise, but you seem to have grasped the concepts well. Keep an eye on your convergences, and remember that the final product should resemble a natural sphere.
Organic Perspective
You seem to have grasped the basic concepts behind the exercise, but the convergences are far too weak. They should get more intense the closer the box is to the viewer. Many of your boxes use parallel lines which makes them look like oblique (and therefore flat).
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge. Make sure that before you draw anything, you spend 10-15 minutes reviewing these exercises. Focus on the exercises involving boxes in perspective, as well as ellipses, as this appears to be your weakest aspects at the moment. Good luck.
12:53 PM, Sunday January 3rd 2021
Thanks for the detailed feedback!
For the Overlapping Lines, I added the dots to help see if when I was overshooting. Initially I struggled quite a bit with drawing with my arm v/s just my wrist (still do, but getting better!). As you point out in the Ghosted Lines, accuracy will come for both with practice.
Ellipses were more fun and I'll try to work on the speed and confidence of my lines (by improving on drawing from my arm).
The persecptive homework was the hardest-I understand the viewpoints, but struggling with how to draw them in relation to the box. 250 boxes will no doubt fix that, but thank you for helping me identify where to focus my efforts!
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