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10:53 PM, Sunday February 13th 2022
Okay lad here we go.
Your superimposed lines look pretty solid and you seem to have a good grasp on having confidence and drawing with the whole shoulder, you did not overshot the lines most of the times and kept them on a good lenght, I would say to train maintaining them on the same direction though as some got rather hairy.
For ghosted lines again you did well on keeping them the lenght as planned. You made a note on not anchoring the hand to the page, whoever, lightly touching your hand on the page to keep some balance is perfectly fine, as long as you remain aware of not anchoring the shoulder to the table and not drawing with the wrist.
Tables of ellipses. It looks like you drew the template for the exercise by hand, which is not recommended as it may deviate your attention from the main focus of the exercise. Whenever it is indicated to use a ruler, it is best to do so. You also made some of the ellipses in only one go. Remember to draw through each ellipse 2 or 3 times to keep them solid and less wobbly, you kept aware of that for the rest of the lesson so good job.
Tables of ellipses was very solid, you maintained a lot of variation, which is good to train different sizes and directions a ellipse can have.
In the funnels exercise you followed the instructions well. Though I do recommend you a lot to train with shifting degrees of ellipses as it can give you a good grasp on perspective early on, as shown here.
Plotted perspective was also very good, you followed as instructed. About it taking too long, it is totally fine for an exercise to take some time to make, as you progress and get more used to doing them, you flow better and things go smoothly. Whenever you do feel burnout oper stressed from it, take a break for a while, go do something else and then get back to it.
Rough perspective also went perfectly as intended, it shows that you improved reasonably form the first to last page.
For your rotated boxes I gotta say, great work! They are pretty consize and proportionate and have a very good design overall.
Organic perspective. Some of the boxes do not vary much in size and direction so it does not give the feeling of farther and closer, there should be some very far away ( Small ) and some very close ( Big ) to the viewer, you did not capture that very well.
Overall a pretty good start! Mistakes are expected and will happen, but you seem to keep the instructions in mind and follow them for the most part. Taking notes on the lesson pages seems reasonable but do not overdo it as they may distract you from the homework itself, its mostly better not to them if it is to point out minor mistakes or things you can not really have control of ( Like how long it takes ).
Next Steps:
Further down the lessons you will be given more instructions on depth and perspective so for now I tell you to during warmups practice some organic perspective, funnels with changing degrees and tables of ellipses keeping variation in mind, as it is better to study how different forms can work rather than perfecting a single one.
5:33 PM, Wednesday February 16th 2022
Thank you for the detailed reply. I appreciate the effort you put into your critique
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