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3:28 PM, Friday June 19th 2020
Hi here goes, Overall your work is excellent if incomplete. The rotated box exercise is missing! There are also one or two points i'd like to bring your attention to:-
Superimposed lines - great but you havnt tried any of differing lengths, they are more difficult the longer they get and also you dont seem to have done any arced or wavy lines. It is important to read the instructions carefully.
Ghosted planes - your lines on these are brilliant - they were done freehand right? One or two of the ellipses missed the edges but overall pretty good.
Rough Perspective - lines are a little wobbly here and there. Any lines drawn are equally important so great care shouldbe taken with all of them. The silhouette doesnt appear to have been reinforced either as instructed.
Rotated boxes - missing
Organic Perspective - great overall, although watch your lines and only an occasional slip up with the box sizing.
Good stuff
Next Steps:
Complete and submit the rotated box lesson
Use your warm up sessions to practice your longer and wavy superimposed lines
2:00 PM, Saturday June 20th 2020
Thank you so much for the critique. I have no clue why rotated box didn't get uploaded so I'm sorry, i uploaded it again in the link below. I also went ahead and re-did lesson 1, I'd appreciate feedback on this too.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14_JFopEX_ijeYIMntoEkpPmopsduAA7A?usp=sharing
Thanks.
1:11 PM, Sunday June 21st 2020
Well done - really nice job overall!
I would just add try and take a little more care with drawing your lines on the rotated boxes lesson - use ghosting the lines until you feel youve got it before drawing and always draw from the shoulder.
Move on to the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
250 box challenge up next!
11:38 AM, Monday June 22nd 2020
Thanks!
Yea actually I've never drawn from shoulder before so my lines arent perfect but im trying my best to make sure i get the habit of doing that :)
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