Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
4:35 PM, Saturday March 14th 2020
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9:25 PM, Wednesday April 1st 2020
Your superimposed lines look smooth and consistent. Some of your ghosted lines are a bit wobbly and some of them have a slight arc but they do follow the correct trajectory. For the table of ellipses, you didn't draw through some of your ellipses on the second page but you did draw through most of them. The angles of the ellipses looks fairly consistent within each section. Your ellipses in planes look smooth with minimal deformation and they are nicely snug in the planes. The spacing between ellipses in funnels looks good and they look fairly well aligned to the minor axis. I noticed some wobbly lines for your box exercises and I would recommend working on ghosting while aiming for a confident line. A confident line is much more useful than a wobbly one. Overall, well done and I think you are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge.
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