3:39 PM, Tuesday February 9th 2021
So, starting with the rough perspective exercise, I feel like I must ask you again: are you sure that you’re plotting start/end points for all of your lines? Because, being as faint as they are, it’s easy to check, and I don’t see any. Planning is a large part of this exercise, and this course as a whole; it’s, in fact, the reason the ghosting method exists- so that you can get in the habit of thinking before you draw. Even more than that, in exercises like these, it’s quite difficult to think that many steps in advance, so splitting the task into chunks, and handing them one at a time, is the way to go. As for the exercise itself, it’s not too different, I’m sorry to say. The convergences, of course, don’t improve overnight, but I was hoping that at least the automatic reinforcing would be gone. Unfortunately, there’s quite a few instances where you’ve corrected an incorrect line. The hatching, too, is a little sloppy, as it doesn’t go from one side of the plane to the next, but instead floats inside of it. Feel free to let me know if I’m misunderstanding any of your work, by the way; I could be wrong about any of this. But, as far as my reading goes, this is it.
In the organic perspective exercise, too, it seems like you’ve used points to plan your convergences, but not necessarily to plan your lines. To clarify, what you need to do is treat every line that you draw as if it’s a ghosted line. That is to say, you should plot start/end points, ghost between them, and then execute. This is especially important if the line needs to do other things, like, say, head to a specific vanishing point, as it does here, as it’s difficult to keep both that, and the line itself, in mind, at once.
The rotated boxes exercise is more of the same, in regards to the linework, it looks like. Also, the issue with the neighboring edges hasn’t been taken care of in its entirety (here’s an illustrated example, so that there’s no confusion), and, same as last time, you've not drawn through all of your boxes, either, but, this exercise being as overwhelming as it is, this is a little more expected. Still, some proper planning would’ve helped, here, too.
Next Steps:
Overall, this submission doesn’t quite do enough for me to be able to move you on to the box challenge, but before we talk about your next step, I’d like to confirm that you understand what I’m telling you, and, more importantly, that I’m not misunderstanding any of your work. We’ll start from there.