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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:15 PM, Saturday July 15th 2023

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9:12 AM, Sunday July 16th 2023

Hello, I'll be critiquing your homework today.

Your lines seem okay, you did have some arching and fraying on the superimposed lines, and some woobliness on the first couple of excersices, but by the last few your lines show a good amount of improvement. I would highly recommend doing ghosted lines and superimposed lines as a warm up to further impove your line quality.

Some of your ellipses lack confidence, with some wobbling and some lines getting sort of straight-ish. I would recommend adding some ellipses to your warm ups as well, ghosting as much as you feel you need to and prioritising cofidence over accuracy.

On the rough perspective excersice you seem to have forgotten to extend your lines towards the vanishing point to check your convergences, you should do that, as it will help you quite a bit with understanding what sort of perspective mistakes you are more prone to and how you can fix them. On the rotating boxes excersice you do have some perspective mistakes, but that is very much expected and you will be working on it on the 250 boxes challenge anyways, one thing worth pointing out though is that you haven't added lineweight which you definitely should as it makes your boxes easier to read in general. Also your organic perspective sheets are a little underpopulated with only a couple of overlaps, that also lack lineweight. I would recommend adding some more boxes to these and adding lineweight in any overlaps that eventually accur.

Lastly, this isn't technically a mistake per say, but you seem to have a bit of self-critquing on some of your pages which is very much discouraged by the lesson materials.

Overall you do have things to work on, but I think you are more or less ready to move on.

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I would recommend having another look at some of the excersices as I have pointed out, but overall you are good to move on to the 250 boxes challenge.

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1:45 PM, Sunday July 16th 2023

Thank you for your critique!

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