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12:26 PM, Wednesday October 20th 2021

Hi there. I'll be your TA and there's a lot to get to so let's get started.

Your superimposed lines are confident, but very frayed. This is from not finding a good pace to draw your marks at yet, which is very commons since this is your very first exercise. Your ghosted lines are looking confident and drawn from the shoulder, so now comes the point where you work on stopping accuracy. I like to lift my pen up where I want the line to stop, as it's easier than trying to stop the energy and momentum of my whole arm.

Your ellipses in planes are off to a good start. You are drawing through appropriately and trying to make contact with the points of the plane to anchor them into space. There are some missed points, but accuracy will improve with mileage. Drawing ellipses is very hard so they take a lot of practice to gain proficiency. Your ellipses in tables are getting quite a bit looser so work on tightening those up, but they are oriented consistently and packed together to leave no room for ambiguity. Your ellipses in funnels are properly split in half by the funnel axis meaning you correctly aligned your minor axes to it, aside from a skewed ellipse here and there.

With your plotted perspective you've got some vertical lines that are not perfectly vertical. Remember in this exercise all lines should be plotted out with a rule and all vertical lines perfectly straight up and down, like this.

Your rough perspective is having some of the same issues with skewed vertical lines. Remember in this one your verticals should be perpendicular to the horizon, horizontals parallel to the horizon, with your converging lines all going to one vanishing point. You got the general gist of it though, and a lot of it is coming down to raw mechanics of a newcomer to drawing. Your lines are looking fairly planned out but are lacking confidence. Remember that a box is 12 lines meaning 12 times you should be planning, ghosting, and executing. Yes it takes a lot longer in the beginning, but the retsults are worth it.

Moving on to the rotated box exercise, keep in mind that students are thrown in over their heads here and expected to struggle. You did the most important thing, and the only thing we ask of students: pushed through and finished it as best as you can. That being said, I'm going to be listing out some things to help reinforce understanding of key concepts.

Adjacency - Your adjacent lines are pretty far apart so you can't properly utilize them as perspective guides. This is a really useful technique so make sure you're understanding it and can properly leverage it. Remember this: lines from boxes that are next to each other should be treated as parallel; that's why they need to be so close.

Rotation - Your boxes are not rotating but rather skewing and shifting over, so give this gif some more attention and try to internalize how the rotation is driven by the vanishing points moving along the horizon.

Scale - You actually did a good job here. You filled the entire page up to let you use your whole arm to draw. More importantly, drawing larger gives your brain more room to work through these spatial puzzles, so good job!

Finally let's take a look at your organic perspective. I see you were planning your boxes with dots which is great, and you didn't try to skimp out on the number of boxes you drew which is another positive. Your perspective is still developing. Right now you have a lot of divergence (near planes smaller than far planes, opposite of reality) but with the box challenge that will clear up. In your third frame on your first page you did a really good job of introducing these very large foreground elements which help the brain perceive scale and space. You also overlapped forms here which tricks the brain into thinking they all occupy the same space. These two techniques are key to selling the illusion of 3d space on a 2d plane like your paper.

Before I mark your lesson as complete I want to have a little talk about taking your time with things. It's normal, and expected, for students to be excited and want to hurry and complete the exercises as they feel it will lead to growth. This is not the case though as students start to miss things or not work on the good habits they should be. Your work has some serious indications of rushing so make sure to slow down as you go through the box challenge. There's nothing worse than assigning a redo after 250 due to rushing. Also try to take your photos in a well lit area with no shadows on the page, and watch out for auto focus (your funnels exercise was out of focus).

With that being said, I will be moving you on to the 250 box challenge with one more encouragement to take your time and pace yourself. Keep up the good work and we'll see you next time.

Next Steps:

Move on to the 250 box challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:02 PM, Wednesday October 20th 2021

Thank you so much and i will keep all these in mind

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