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11:11 PM, Tuesday January 24th 2023
Good on you for doing Lesson 1. Here's my thoughts:
Superimposed Lines - Quite a bit of fraying there at the end, and it is evident that you aren't confident and taking care of making sure your lines are straight and quick. Your short lines are decent, though.
Take some time to improve your long lines.
Table of Ellipses - Ellipses are uncomfortable for you, I can see. I can also see that you understood the lesson, though.
I see confidence issues in the arm. Take your time with this one especially.
I suggest focusing a little bit on ellipses when warming up.
Ghosted Planes - Just work on your line quality, as mentioned.
Ghosted Lines - You need to work on your wobbly nature with the lines. Take your time next time and do A LOT of ghostings. It helped me quite a bit when my lines were that way.
Organic Perspective - You really need to pay attention and care to the symmetry of the boxes you draw. Your lines also show a wobbly nature again. You do understand the lesson, though.
Ellipses in Planes - This one is good. I can see you took your time to fit the ellipses snugly in the planes. Good job there.
Funnels - Nice job here, too. I can see that you understand the assignment
Plotted Perspective - Not much to say here. Perfectly done.
Rough Perspective - The line work and straightness could use some work, but it is a good effort and definitely elligible.
Rotated Boxes - Most of your boxes aren't converging away and rotating properly. You'll really need to exaggerate the "collapsing away" action from the middle box quite a bit more if you want to convince the viewer of rotation. You'll have to redo this one.
Overall, some errors and inconsistencies, but a nice effort. In my opinion, you only really need to do one revision and you'll be on your way to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Redo the rotated boxes. Be careful! Try over-analyzing the homework given to us here. It helped me quite a bit to see what the rotation of the boxes were pointing to.
6:43 PM, Friday January 27th 2023
Please see the attached for my updated Rotated Boxes, thank you for the critique it has really helped me to know what to work on!
1:19 AM, Tuesday January 31st 2023
Absolutely a definite improvement! I can see a complete turn-around from your misunderstanding of your initial attempt. Fantastic job.
Your last few boxes on the end points need to collapse just a little bit more and your lines are wobbly, but that's literally just it. Warmup revisiting of this exercise and things that do with lines should do you just fine.
Good on you.
Next Steps:
In my opinion. It is time for the 250 box challenge. Go ahead and do that! Be sure to be quite critical with your line work on that one.
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