7:25 AM, Tuesday January 10th 2023
Seems to be good! Let’s see, then.
Starting off, your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I do notice some hooks at the end of them, which indicates to me that you’re not waiting for your pen to be fully off the page before dragging it back to the starting point (please do!), but that’s a minor issue. The ghosted lines/planes are confident, if a little unambitious. I’m not sure why the start/end points of the planes aren’t points, but lines, however; whatever the reason, that’s not how it should be.
Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is mostly well done (though it is, quite literally, unfinished – were you that over it that you couldn’t do the one remaining frame?) Your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through (at times a little much, but that’s alright), but they’ll sometimes float inside of their frames – note, for instance, page 1, row 3, column 2. The idea is for an ellipse to touch all sides of the frame. Otherwise, what’s its goal? The ellipses in planes do a good job of maintaining their predecessors’ confidence, despite the difficulty of these frames. That said, remember that each ellipse is to be drawn through 2-3 times, ideally 2 – no more. The funnels are well done – I especially appreciate that the degrees of your ellipses increase as they move away from the center. Be careful, however, that the ellipses extend to meet their frames, like in the table of ellipses exercise. Yes, I’m referring to the ones on the edges of the funnels.
The plotted perspective exercise is nicely done.
The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some nice improvement throughout the set. Really, the only issue with it as far as I can tell is how scratchy it is – remember that, as per our automatic reinforcing rules, each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out.
Good attempt at the rotated boxes exercise! I don’t see any reminder boxes, but seeing how yours do a decent job of rotating without them, I suppose I won’t complain too much. Beyond that, your boxes are big, and snug, and look fairly solid in the back, too, so this is nicely done all-around. Of course, had you had any issues, they would’ve been addressed in the upcoming box challenge, so no stress either way.
For the organic perspective exercise, it seems like you missed the instruction to split your page into framed compositions. It’s always good to consult the example homework, in cases like this, and try to mimic it the best you can. Had you done so, you’d also have seen that you don’t need to draw through your boxes in this exercise, but I won’t complain nearly as much about that, since that’s actually quite useful! Your boxes are a little same-y, and, again, you shouldn’t be drawing any line more than once, but I’d say that by the end of these 2 pages you’ve put yourself in a good place to attempt the box challenge.
Next Steps:
I’m marking this lesson as complete so, you may head on over to it! Good luck!