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2:05 PM, Wednesday January 5th 2022
Hi! Congratulations on finishing lesson one! You did well and I can see the effort you put into these :) I'll be giving you critique on your pages here.
Lines:
I looked over your superimposed lines page and first off, you did well to make each line start from the same point, so good job on that. However, as you continue to the right of your page, the lines start to wiggle and fray. Though fraying is expected at this stage and will improve with further practice (during your warm ups) the wobble is a sign that you either went too slow or forgot to draw from your shoulder. When drawing out your lines, it's important to remember to make smooth confident strokes, which is achieved by speed, and using your shoulder's pivot.
However, your lines in the ghosted section were great! You're almost there to connecting both dots consistently so keep it up.
Ellipses:
Your ellipses are smooth and confident, good job. From here, visualize keeping your ellipses within the boarders presented. With more practice this will be easer. However, you had a mistake in your funnels assignment. You drew an ellipse in the center of the funnel, split by the shorter, horizontal line. That shorter middle line somewhat acts as an ellipse itself when turned on it's side. I'm sorry if I'm not explaining this well, but think of looking straight at a disc's edge so that it appears to be a flat line. What you were supposed to do is draw ellipses on either side of that line. Other than than that, everything else looked okay.
Boxes
I won’t criticize your perspective too heavily because you will gain a better understanding of perspective after the 250 box challenge. What I will say is that, maybe rewatch some of the lesson videos on boxes to get a better feel for where the lines should be placed. Your boxes in the Organic Perspective assignment, though they did rotate, felt a bit warped in places. Generally, keep in mind that the width lines lay parallel to the horizon line and height lines lay perpendicular to it (Again, this will be improved after the 250 box challenge).
*All in all, great work, I'll be putting what I'd like you to do next below.
Next Steps:
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I'd like you to do 1 more page of the Super imposed lines assignment and really try to keep your lines straight.
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I'd also like you to do 1 more page of the Funnels assignment and follow the directions more closely (drawing the ellipses on either side of the short middle line divider).
2:54 PM, Wednesday January 19th 2022
Hello, I wanted to let you know that I made a mistake on the funnels part! You did it just like the exercise said to do it, so don't worry about doing another page of funnels. Sorry about that.
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