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6:15 AM, Wednesday May 5th 2021

Hi! So your link links not to an album, but rather to your profile. This would be fine, normally, except you’ve no posts on your profile. Did you perchance set the lesson as private? Once you have a working link for me (if you can't get imgur to work, consider google drive), feel free to post it as a reply to this comment.

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7:25 PM, Wednesday May 5th 2021

https://imgur.com/gallery/qmu6XHc

Hey sorry ahout that, still figuring out how it works. But hopefull this is it. Thanks for the help!

5:10 AM, Thursday May 6th 2021

Yup – let’s see!

Your superimposed lines are mostly good. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory. You’ve also not tried out any arcing lines, which is a shame. The ghosted lines/planes look mostly confident, save for a tendency to arc near the end. Be careful that you’re not so overly conscious of the end point that the line loses its smoothness/roundness. Maintaining it is priority #1. Also, be sure to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes.

The table of ellipses exercise looks very good. Your ellipses are smooth, generally rounded, and drawn through the correct number of times. Be a little more careful that you’re keeping their degrees/angles consistent in a frame, and check back that your motions are still coming from your elbow, every once in a while. Students have a tendency to revert to their wrist for some of the sharper turns, and looking at the pointiness of some of these ellipses you might be doing that too. The ellipses in planes exercise looks great. Your ellipses maintain their prior confidence, and do a good job of fitting within these new, more complicated frames. The funnels are a little mixed. The most worrying thing right now are the corner funnels, that are mostly correct, save for the fact that they’re missing a minor axis. This is a big problem, though, as that’s what you’re meant to be aligning your ellipses to. The fact that the exercise is correct despite it not being there worries me, because you might be thinking of this as an exercise where you simply draw some roughly upright ellipses. Though this is the case here, later on our minor axis won’t be so straight, so it’s important to learn how to align ellipses to it. Anyway, the ellipses are mostly aligned (though some more ghosting, and rotating of the page might help), but the minor axis doesn’t always extend all the way to the end, so, for the same reason mentioned earlier, be sure to do it.

The plotted perspective exercise looks good in its second page (by the way, the requirement is 1 page), save for the hatching. Hatch from only one side, using a ruler, and try to be a bit cleaner about it.

The rough perspective exercise is missing 1 page. I guess you mixed up the requirements for these two? Looking at what I’ve got, it’s fairly well done, but I’ll remind you that you’re not required to stick to your original guesses here. Once you’ve got a point down, check it (by ghosting it to the horizon), and alter it as needed. Also, be mindful of your automatic reinforcing habit. Each line is drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out.

The rotated boxes exercise has an entire layer more than we ask, but it’s well done. You haven’t drawn through all of your boxes, but this is understandable from how much of a visual mess this is. Next time, draw the 2 layers that we ask for, and use the extra space to make your boxes a little bigger – it’ll give your brain the room it needs to think through these problems.

Finally, save for the aforementioned automatic reinforcing issue, the organic perspective exercise is well done, but it doesn’t seem like you’re using the ghosting method for it. Rather than committing your planning to points, it seems like you’re extending your lines arbitrarily. Of course, this is incorrect. Other than that, however, it looks good – the increase in size, and consistent foreshortening, do a lot to convey the intended flow.

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Solid work on this lesson. I’m marking it as complete, so head on over to the box challenge.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
4:38 PM, Thursday May 6th 2021

Thank you so much i will be sure to go and be mindful of what you have said while i do the box challenge.

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