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5:13 PM, Saturday August 20th 2022
Greetings Nopan, congratulations on completing the first lesson! My name is Tamago and I will be the one to critique your homework for today to see if you're ready to go to the 250 box challenge.
Lines
Your superimposed lines were good, while there were a lot of frays at the end it was good that it only frayed at one point as you took notes to draw in one point. My recommendation to lessen all of the frays would be to focus on ghosting more. In your ghosted lines I've noticed there were some minor arched lines in your homework. One way to fix that is your shoulder position, your shoulder might unconsciously make an arch motion which is why if you arch in the opposite direction you could get a straight line. Through your ghosted planes I can see a lot of confidence in your lines, but some planes lacked confidence as I noticed the wobbly lines in some planes. As stated before, take more time on ghosting your line and you should remember "Confidence over Accuracy."
Ellipses
While you did draw through your ellipses 2-3 times, I've noticed that some of your ellipses in the table and the ghosted planes do not touch the lines. What I recommend you to do when ghosting your ellipses is broaden the ghost. This can help you to be less likely to make small ellipses that don't touch the lines of the planes or tables. While most of your ellipses touched each other, a minor few did not touch, so keep in mind where you ghost your ellipses so you can have the ellipses nice and close to each other.
Boxes
Your plotted perspective boxes seem to be distorted specifically in the back corner of your boxes. A recommendation for you to fix this is to keep in mind that all the vertical lines of the boxes in this specific homework is that they are all parallel. Your plotted perspectives were excellent, each line was just in one stroke, as a common mistake for people (including me) is drawing the line more than once. The rotated boxes and organic perspective were pretty consistent but with some minor distortion which is fine as these focus on the introduction perspectives.
Next Steps:
I would like to see you revise on...
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1 page of Plotted Perspective
* I would like you to revise on this as most of your boxes in this one were distorted, remember that the vertical lines in this homework must be parallel! -
1 page of Table of Ellipses
* This will help you to improve on your confidence in ellipses to fitting inside the tables while touching the lines of table as well the ellipses
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