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1:10 AM, Sunday September 6th 2020

Hey there! Congrats on completing Lesson 1! I'll take a look at what you produced.

LINES:

Your superimposed lines look confident and smooth, both straight lines and arced lines. There are some minor fraying on both sides of your arced lines however. Try to keep the starting point of your lines consistent throughout the stroke. Your ghosted lines and planes also look good, you have clearly defined starting and stopping points with your smooth lines.

ELLIPSES:

Your table of ellipses look very clean and confident, but it seems that some of your ellipses aren't drawn through multiple times. You should draw through the ellipses multiple times to practice having even ellipses, which you do achieve with some of them but not all of them. Some of your ellipses in your ellipses in plane are nice and smooth, but their shape could be more even if you drew through them multiple times. Your ellipses for the funnels are similar too, the lines are confident and smooth but some are uneven. Also, be sure to make the two sides of the funnels symmetrical.

BOXES:

Your plotted perspective looks good, it seems you have a good grasp of perspective and how it works from it. For your rough perspective, make sure that your horizontal lines are all parallel. Some aren't when you are connecting the back two corners together. Your rotated boxes is a strong attempt, still lots to improve on but your corners are nice and close, and some of your boxes are properly rotating. Your organic perspective is also very nice, the flow of boxes are nice and believable.

I'm not sure what else to say, but again congrats on completing Lesson 1! Overall this is a very strong attempt and a lot of the problems I see is easily remedied by doing the 250 Box Challenge, but I would like to see another attempt at the ellipses with you drawing through the ellipses 2-3 times first.

Next Steps:

Redo a page of the table of ellipses and funnels. Be sure to draw through the ellipses 2-3 times for each and make sure that the funnels are symmetrical from the minor axis.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:27 AM, Monday September 7th 2020

Hello! Thank you so much for your time on the feedback! It was very helpful.

Here are the revisions as requested. :)

https://imgur.com/a/fBfpJ5P

8:52 AM, Monday September 7th 2020

These look better than your first attempt, good work! The ellipses are more even. I think you're ready for the challenge now.

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge, good luck!

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