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1:10 PM, Friday May 29th 2020
Hi, dtbeatz.
Just took a look at your work an this is overall a very good submission, but there is still room for improvement.
Lines
Your superimposed lines are really nice and smooth, but your ghosted are not as good as them. When doing the ghosted lines you should still draw them with the same confidence as in the superimposed lines. You just have that dot to give you a goal to where to draw your line to. Right now it's more important to focus on getting smooth lines. Accuracy naturally will come later, if you keep practicing correctly. Your ghosted planes are also good, but you didn't seem to place the dots for the inner lines. Always plot your lines with dots. This gives you a goal to where to draw each line and, by checking how far they are from it, you can identify your mistaked and work on them.
Ellipses
Your table of ellipses are also good, although there is some noticeable wobbling. Remember to ghost your lines well and then draw with confidence. Don't think about your lines while you draw or try to correct them. Most of you ellipses in planes are smooth, but some of them ended up deformed, probably because you were trying to make sure they fitted inside the planes. On the funnels exercise you did a good job in keeping the ellipses aligned with the minor axis.
Boxes
Your rough perspective is very good and you managed to keep everything very well aligned. In your rotated boxes, some of them are not actually rotated, but just with different proportions. You did a very good job keeping everything clean, though.
On the organic perspective you did a good job overall, but you should have exaggerated the boxes dimensions. You did this well in the middle frame of the first page, where the smaller boxes look really farm away and the larger look very close. This si what you should have done on the other frames. You should also have tried more overlapping boxes. In some cases you went over the same line more than once and this is something you should avoid.
You did well in this lesson and are ready to move on.
Next Steps:
250 boxes challenge.
6:58 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020
Hi Pedro,
Thank you for your detailed review. I will work on the points you suggested.
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