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1:03 PM, Thursday July 21st 2022
Hello Boptop! Congrats on finishing lesson 1. I'm Strauss and would be pleased to critique your work, i hope they can help you one way or another on your art journey. Now, i’ll divide this into 3 major sections, let us get into it!
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Lines
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Super-imposes Lines look good. Confidently executed (which is our motto here). There is of course, some fraying at the end but as long as it’s on the end-side only (meaning that you took your time to ghost every single line with care and precision), you’re good to go!
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The Ghosted Lines are confidently executed too. For Drawabox: Confidence > Accuracy, and you nailed it well. Though, I suggest next time whenever you decided to revisit this as warm-ups, try to draw longer lines. This is not by any means “mandatory” but it will definitely very beneficial in the long run, to be more flexible with your mark-marking skill.
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For Ghosted Planes, I can see some wobbly lines here and there, but overall good! I’m also pleased to see you take advantage of all the space that the page has given, plus, planes are being drawn in various sizes and angles, there’s variety in there, so nice job
Ellipses
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For Ellispses in Planes - Sometimes your ellipses either aren’t touching the corner and/or went over the base plane, but your ellipses are mostly being executed with confidence. Good job.
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Tables Of Ellipses, overall great! Granted, there’s some overlapping and miscalculation here and there, but you’ve followed the instruction fairly well: Executed the ellipses with confidence, super-imposed them 2-3 times, and fit them tightly within the table bound.
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The Funnels look very solid too. Lines are confident. The minor axis being placed correctly, properly cut the ellipses in half.
Boxes
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Plotted Perspective: solid work!
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For Rough Perspective: Your lines are getting just a little bit wobbly, but I can still see your attempt at making confident lines, so great job regardless! And here’s a rule of thumb: "width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon”
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Rotated Boxes Very good actually. I’m impressed! You don’t leave much space between the boxes, and as far as I can see, you’ve made a great attempt at following the instruction. Of course, if I’m being nitpicky here, there’s lines that are wobbly, there’s line that are not really perpendicular to another or adhere to other lines, but those flaws are minimal & mistakes were bound to be happened. Overall, you’re able to grasp the concept well enough, plus this is one of the hardest exercise in Lesson 1, and you nailed it well. Great job.
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And for organic perspective Very solid, Nice sizes/variety of boxes and the way they rotated in space.
(Though, next time try to edit your image/take photos at location that has light, your images are a bit… dark, and it hinders the critique progress)
Overall, you did very good! You can now continue your way to the 250 Box Challenge. Using (any) Lesson 1 homework as 15-30 mins warm-ups before diving into the assignment is recommended. Good luck.
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
5:07 PM, Thursday July 21st 2022
Hi! Thank you for providing critique to my work! I would like to appologise about the poor quality of my images.
Next time, I will make sure to have proper lighting, so critiquing my work will becomes easier!
Thank you again!
10:51 AM, Friday July 22nd 2022
yup no problem! if my words came out a bit harsh then i apologized too (that ain't my intention at all xd).
wish u all the best for the next lessons.
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