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7:43 AM, Tuesday May 25th 2021
Hi LOADSOFSKEPTIC,
I have looked through your work and I saw that on the first few pages, you had a tendency to make some very subtle s or c bends in your lines. I also noticed that in the table of ellipsis exercise you drew a lot of ellipsis overlapping each other. It would be a good idea to maybe revisit one page of that exercise so you can get a better grip on ellipsis for when you get to ‘lesson 2’. Continuing on the topic of ellipsis, in the funnels exercise, most of your ellipses were usually angled a bit away from the centerline with the minor axis and there was also a few cases were it seemed like the ellipsis weren't the size that you probably wanted.
In the rough perspective exercise, you had a normal result but, you didn’t execute the lines as smoothly as you earlier had shown.
In the rotated boxes exercise I saw multiple mistakes. First of all when you started out you didn't manage to center the box in the middle of the guiding lines which could have been a help, if you needed to know the position of the vanishing points. Secondly the boxes turns away from the middle a bit too much, combined with the fact that they also become much smaller making them seem way far back behind the other boxes.
For the Organic Perspective exercise, you have done pretty well for the perspective, but the foreshortening on some of the boxes is a bit too extreme and there's also a few that have the far plain bigger than the near plain. This is something you should most definitely learn in the 250 box challenge.
If you need more feedback I recommend that you watch ScyllaStews homework being Criticised by Uncomfortable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cciOw9z6IU
Next Steps:
To conclude I recommend that you, do one page of the table of ellipsis or Ellipses in Planes exercises and that you try the rotated boxes exercise once more using my notes. After this I think you should be ready to tackle the 250 box challenge.
‘Remember to read through the exercise material before tackling the exercises’
7:17 AM, Thursday May 27th 2021
thanks! i've read the critique two days late, sorry about that but sure ill do those again. also the reason why my lines weren't as smoothly as the first is because i've stopped for a few weeks before continuing through lesson 1
10:00 AM, Thursday May 27th 2021
so here https://imgur.com/gallery/iFQuMVW in the rotated box i have made some mistakes. sometimes when i plot points and draw a line, it misses and i am often tempted to put another line to correct it but then it becomes a thick line that looks wrong so you'll see some parts of the boxes which would be too thick than what i had intended it to be, and on the table of elipses i find circles hard to do. but i'll be tackling the 250 boxes now :)
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