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5:36 PM, Saturday June 13th 2020
Hello and congrats on finishing lesson 1. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these look decent but there is definitely room for improvement here. You really challenged yourself with making all of your straight lines really long so you are having some pretty significant wobble and tapering issues. I would advise doing some of your warmups with some shorter lines as well instead of always doing longer lines just to gauge what your level on control is on a less challenging line. Moving onto your ghosted lines these look pretty good not really seeing any issues here and you ghosted planes are looking good as well. It's pretty clear that you are correctly implemently the ghosting method on these and your results are nice smooth confident line work with pretty good accuracy as well. Good job.
Your table of ellipses turned out pretty well but I'm seeing some issues on your ellipses in planes. While trying to very accurately fit your ellipse into your planes you are slowing down your ellipse motion and it's causing a lot of wobble and destroying your ellipse integrity. Please take a look at the lesson homework page here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed It's far more important to ghost multiple times and get a smooth ellipse that is slightly out of the bounds you need rather than destroying the shape integrity as you slow down to try and be more accurate. Your accuracy will improve over time with mileage so right now you should be more concerned with confident smooth shapes. Your ellipses in funnels are having a bit of the same issue although it is far less prevalent in these just something to keep in mind. I would for sure keep ellipses in planes in your warmups for a while as they could still use some work.
The plotted perspective exercise looks fine nothing to say here really. Looking at your rough perspective exercise I'm seeing a LOT of line wobble here that wasn't in your ghosted planes. I'm not sure if you stopped ghosting for these because you were trying to think through the perspective problems you were facing but I really want to point out that you should be ghosting every line you draw multiple times. No matter how short it is at least for now. That said there was some improvement on the second page but it's a still a prevalent issue and something you should be thinking about. Good job extending the lines back on your boxes and checking your work.
Good job on the rotated box exercise. You are still having line wobble issues on these but you did a job executing in most other respects when it comes to this exercise. You are keeping your gaps nice and narrow and consistent and drawing through your boxes. Lastly your organic perspective exercise is looking decent. Less wobble than your previous few exercises but you are having some divergence issues with your boxes which will be improved a lot as you do the 250 box challenge. Overall this was a very good submission and you should be proud of the work you did here. Always remember to ghost your lines multiple times and work on getting those ellipses a bit more confident and smooth. Good luck on the 250 box challenge.
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