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12:45 AM, Thursday April 2nd 2020

Hey zerq, I'm one of the TAs and I'll be going over your work today so let's get started.

Starting with your super imposed lines I'm seeing a lot of wobbling on the longer lines indicating you're steering your pen instead of confidently executing your lines with the shoulder so be mindful of that and keep practicing on confident strokes with your shoulder as flow and smoothness is more important than accuracy right now. Accuracy comes with mileage. With your ghosted lines, first thing I notice is the sparse amount of lines you drew. Empty page means missed opportunity to practice and get better. We leave the "one page" vague on purpose as it's ultimately up to the student how much they want to get out of these lessons. Your lines themselves are still somewhat shaky so keep practicing using your shoulder to execute swift marks on the page.

Moving on to your ellipses, they are still showing a consistent lack in confidence as you are mindfully guiding the pen instead of using the ghosting method in conjunction with the shoulder. You are drawing through them well and keeping the concentric passes tight, but the ellipses often have times where there are flat regions. With your ellipses in planes you are doing a good job trying to make contact with the edges of the planes to keep the ellipse fit snugly within the bounds instead of floating in space within. As your ellipses get smaller in the tables, the grouping of the follow up passes of drawing through are less confident, but you continue to do a good job keeping everything tightly packed to leave no room for ambiguity. With your funnels exercise you're doing pretty well keeping your minor axes aligned to the funnel axes for the most part. There are some that are skewed off, but the overall trend is in the right direction.

Now looking at your rough perspective, I can see you planned your boxes and lines carefully. The horizontals are parallel to the horizon and verticals perpendicular, and you put down dots for everything showing you knew exactly where each line needed to go before you put it down. Unfortunately there is still a lot of lacking of confidence, and it shows with the scale at which you chose to draw most of your boxes. Your converging lines are on track as we epxect at this stage and you correctly applied your extension lines so good job there.

Moving on to your rotated boxes, your lines to feel much neater here! You did a good job keeping things neat in the face of complexity here and you pushed through to completion which is all we ask of our students here. So getting right to it, the first thing is that you are not rotating your boxes so much as skewing them and moving them over so keep this gif handy to reference how the rotation is driven by the change in location of the vanishing points. You did a pretty good job keeping your boxes tight together to leverage adjacent lines

as perspective guides so good job there. One more thing to keep in mind is to always draw as large as your paper allows as the larger you draw the more room your brain has to puzzle through these spatial problems. It's a good rule of thumb in general to always draw large when working through complex problems.

Finally, let's look at your organic perspective. Your compositions are nice, and there's a good exploration of space here. Your forms go from big to small to indicate foreground to background, and there is a real sense of depth on the flat page. Unfortunately you did not follow the instructions in a few places. You didn't frame your compositions as instructed here and you did not do 3 per page as shown here. The good news is your line quality is starting to improve here.

Next Steps:

You're off to a good start but before I mark this lesson as complete I am going to ask you to do 1 more frame of the rough perspective and then fill the rest of the page with ellipses in planes. I want you to focus on your confidence in both lines and ellipses. In the rough perspective you only need to do 4 or so boxes, just make them large. When you finish this, show them to me here and we'll go from there.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:44 AM, Friday April 3rd 2020

Yeah I guess on the organic perspective I for some reason thought that was three pages stacked on each other.

https://i.imgur.com/WPEQAvL.jpg

My rough perspective is a bit more accurate, which I think is because I had already started on the 250 Box Challenge since the first time I submitted this work I didn't get an offcial critique and I didn't want to set out of lesson work for all that time.

I'm not sure why I have so much trouble with ellipse, I don't really have that much problem drawing a curvy line when I'm, say, drawing an eye, but for whatever making a complete circle is just really difficult for me.

3:13 PM, Friday April 3rd 2020

This is on the right track. Keep practicing in your warmups and it'll get better!

Next Steps:

You are now officially cleared for the 250 box challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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