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12:03 PM, Wednesday July 15th 2020
Hello there! You did it! You went through it all!
So, in your Superimposed lines exercises i noticed that your lines are frying on the both ends a lot. When doing the exercies make sure that you always start on the same point but I feel like you get over it in the second page so it's not an issue.
Your ghosted lines had it's wobbles and a an arcing issues. Remember, confidence and straight lines over accuracy - it comes from practicing ghosting a lot.
Looking at your ghosted planes tho I feel like you get rid of wobblines for the most part, although i still see a little bit of arcing here and there, make sure to always ghost before doing a line and execute it boldly even if it means it misses the destination. The arcing may also come from you not using your arm pivot. If you're sure you used your arm for it and it still appears try compensating with arcing your lines the other way so the line turns out straight. If you have a lot of trouble hitting the mark just really take your time with ghosting even for a minute or more before making a line. It's not a race - take your time.
In your ellipses in planes exercises wobblines strikes again! Remember its more important to have an smooth boldly drawn ellipse that may have missed 2 or 3 marks inside plane than have a one with wobbly edges that striked all the marks. Work on that, really ghost these ellipses for some time until you feel like you have the motion covered. I also realized you had a lot the ellipses ending with kind little curl at the end. One thing you can do to fix this is try lifting your pen off the page to end your mark instead of trying to stop the motion of your arm. But you did a great job of drawing through all your ellipses two times!
In the table of ellipses exercise I can see that for the most part your ellipses fit in the spaces pretty good but I would say you still kinda have same issues as in the ellipses in planes exercise.
In funnels exercise you made a mistake of not placing the minor axis exactly in the middle. It should be made so when you draw your ellipses inside it cuts them perfectly into 2 symmetrical shapes. If you ever find your ellipses are slanting try turning the page until they line up correctly. I also noticed that the degrees are not changing and they should, it's kinda optional but doesn't hurt to do it.
In your rough perspective I would say you did pretty good. Your horizontal lines stayed parallel to the horizon and your vertical lines are fairly perpendicular for the most part. You also did a pretty good job of getting your boxes to converge near or on your plotted vanishing points. Next time doing this exercise I would encourage you to adding some more weight to the lines in the front of the boxes by ghosting over it like trying to do a line and then going over it few times to create a thicker line.
On rotated boxes you did okay, it's a really hard exercise to tackle. Your boxes are well constructed and they are kept together nicely, but you have the common mistake of not actually rotating them, you can read about it here.
On your organic perspective you did okay. There are some mistakes but not a one that drawing 250 boxes won't fix! ;)
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Overall I think you did a good job I would only like to see:
2 pages of ellipses in planes
with minding the mistakes I spoke about in the critique.
10:15 AM, Saturday July 18th 2020
Thank you for the feedback. Here, I tried to ghost more and worked on my ellipses. I do need more practice drawing ellipses.
12:30 PM, Saturday July 18th 2020
You're welcome.
Yeah that's a huge improvement! You really make those ellipses round as they should be. You need practice with ellipses just like anybody else haha just warm up before drawing session with tables of ellipses or any other exercises from lesson 1 and you will get there! Good luck tho :)
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250 boxes are what you need
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