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5:58 PM, Wednesday September 7th 2022
Heya, Heligan! I'm Keisari(42) and I'm here to critique your homework. Firstly, congratulations on finishing Lesson 1 and kick-starting your Drawabox journey!
Lines
Overall, you did good following the instructions and understanding the concepts presented throughout the lesson. You need to work on your confidence and internalize the idea of prioritizing confidence over accuracy more (keep in mind overshooting is preferable to wobbly lines!), but you'll have plenty of time to do that with your warmups. Good job!
Ellipses
You're drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times, keeping them symmetrical and doing a good job trying to keep them smooth. Although, I'd like to emphasize that smoothness and confidence is a higher priority than keeping your Ellipses within bounds on the Ellipses in Planes exercise; you should strive to have them touch all 4 edges, but that should not be more important than nice, round ellipses -- don't have them be deformed for the sake of keeping them within the planes!
Boxes
You did a good job overall; you seem to have understood how VPs work. Your Rough Perspective homework looks a little rough and I'd like to point out you should be constructing your boxes a little more carefully - remember, the width lines should be parallel to horizon and the height lines perpendicular to the horizon in one-point perspective. I also noticed the crosshatching on Rotated Boxes is rather messy -- all lines must be ghosted, those included; keep that in mind when you do those again in your warmups!
Additionally, you seem to have redrawn your lines several times. This is a core infringement upon what is taught to you in Drawabox; one of the most important things you learn here is to accept, deal with your mistakes and work with them in a way that can improve your learning. No lines should be redrawn!
Moreover, you'll have plenty of time to work on your shortcomings with the 250 Box Challenge, which I'll be directing you to! I'm marking this lesson as complete, good luck!
[Thank you to tiamal on Discord for the extra input!]
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge!
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