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4:17 AM, Friday January 21st 2022
Hi there, congrats on completing your Lesson 1!
Let's have a look...
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Starting off, your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory
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The ghosted lines/planes are fairly confident, too. You’ve kept them smooth and straight, the whole way through, and not forgotten about the start/end points of the non-diagonal center lines – well done.
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The table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good.
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The ellipses in planes are nicely done – despite these more complicated frames, they maintain their prior smoothness/roundness.
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The funnels look solid. Just be sure that the minor axis extends all the way through your ellipses; or, conversely, if there’s no more minor axis, simply don’t add another ellipse – it’ll be one aligned to nothing, and that’s not of much use to the exersice.
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The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.
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The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and improves further throughout the set.
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The rotated boxes exercise looks great. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and properly rotating. It is a difficult exersice, and I think you managed just great!
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The organic perspective exercise looks really good. As per their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening, your boxes flow as intended.
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Great job on this lesson. I’m marking it as complete, and think you should move right on to the box challenge. Good luck!
11:43 AM, Friday January 21st 2022
Thank you for the critique!
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