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9:38 AM, Monday September 13th 2021
Hi!
I think you are improving while doing the exercise, which is the purpose of them.
I don't see big mistakes, but :
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I think you could build up some more patience. In your tables of ellipses, you could have fit more, same for the Funnels. Anyway, we will be drawing a lot more ellipses, so don't waste time re-doing it.
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I'm pretty sure you should do 1 more page of "Organic perspective" : almost 1/4 of your boxes haven't been built with the "Y" method, therefor have only 2 planes. It seems to me as a miss of information that causes you to pass through the exercise without plenty benefit of it.
Nice promising work overall i think.
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Would you mind doing 1 more page of "organic perspective", making sure to use the requested method of box construction as explained in the text (not in the video) before validating your lesson?
11:20 PM, Monday September 13th 2021
thanks for your critiques! heres another page of organic perspective.
i am aware of my patience troubles but ill try locking in on that. in this submission i also fudged some lines with their tapering and consistency but i'll but doing some exercises to help out with that.
7:54 AM, Tuesday September 14th 2021
Hello!
Nice work. I still can see that you rushed a bit (you could have fit way more boxes by doing them a bit smaller). If you are short on patience, you can only work on your mindset.
Maybe try to keep in mind that drawing is not a speedrace, but more a lifetime marathon. Take your time, try to do less at each session and enjoy what you are doing!
Anyway, nice perspective attempt, nice straight lines, I would suggest you to move on the 250 boxes challenge.
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Hope to see your 250 boxes soon! But not too soon ;)
And to show you mine too, fella!
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1:59 AM, Tuesday September 14th 2021
• Superimposed Lines
o I think they look fine. Thy start to fray at the end but nothing to crazy and will improve over time with practice. • Ghosted Lines
o Nice confident lines. You can see how you are using your shoulder for most of the lines• Ghosted Planes/Ellipses
o I really like these. Especially since you didn’t try to force the lines into the right corners and slow down but instead focusing on confident lines.
• Table of Ellipses
o Look decent. More practice will improve accuracy. Just remember to draw with your shoulder and depend on the muscle memory you create by practicing.
• Funnels
o Same feed back as the ellipses table
• Plotted Perspective
o Very nice. See nothing to critique here.
• Rough Perspective
o Good job on drawing the line back to the horizon. I see that you are tracing over “mistake” lines. If you make a mistake, just flow with it and don’t redo it. It’s a bad habit to get into.
• Rotated Boxes
o Nice job. Some of the perspectives are off but you can clearly see you changing the view that makes this appear to be a round ball.
• Organic Perspective
o Really nice job here. Good job making the boxes toward the front larger. I like how some of the boxes are straight on point of views. And you rotated your boxes well.
Overall nice work! Just maybe do warm ups with ellipses to practice.
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250 Boxes!!!
2:43 AM, Wednesday September 15th 2021
Thanks for the critiques! I'll make sure to stop going over mistake lines and just letting them be.
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