Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:08 AM, Monday August 10th 2020
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3:13 AM, Wednesday August 19th 2020
For your lines homework it looks pretty good. Everything looks confident and smooth, you can tell everything drawn was done in one swift motion. You did what's expected even there is some missed or slightly wobbly lines, but lines are going to be something that are natually going to get better the more you draw.
Your Eplisies homwork also looks good. I would ghost a little more and really think about the marks your going to make before you draw them, especially with the Ellipses in Planes excersize it looks like you could have spend a little more time ghosting, but for the most part they are what's expected.
Your Rough perspective hits all the marks it should be hitting. Nothing is pointing the wrong way and everything looks like how it is supposed to. It takes a while to get those boxes to line up with that vanishing point, but it's something your naturally going to get better at the more you do them, especcially after the 250 box challage.
Your Rotated Boxes assignment looks pretty well done, nothing on it really sticks out to me as broken. I recommend that students do it bigger so that all of the drawn through lines doesn't look messy, but I can tell that you understand how the boxes are supposed to be rotating.
Your Organic Perspective is also great! You can see the illusion as the boxed come towards you. You can even see how the confidence in your lines improved a little from when you did the Ghosted Lines.
You followed the instructions very well so overall it looks great! It is exacly what is expected for a beginner on the first lesson, and I can tell that you understand everything so far as nothing looks too broken or out of place.
Next Steps:
Make sure you are including these as a warmup, especially the box exercises and the ellipsis exercises. I would go on to the 250 box challenge.
3:42 AM, Wednesday August 19th 2020
Thank you so much for your critique. One thing I wondered if someone would pick up on is the fact that I was using a cardboard box as a flat surface, making my lines extra wavy (at least to me). I struggled with organic perspective, which is to be expected. I specifically had a hard time really getting those boxes built and not looking Picassoesque. Hoping that the 250 Box Challenge will help with that.
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9:08 AM, Monday August 17th 2020
Your lines are wobble. Redo ur work. Just concentrate on ur very single line lines. Dont rush urself. i guess ur looking for perfection but confident is more important than accuracy
Next Steps:
follow each and every step of draw a box (superimposed lines)
3:59 AM, Tuesday August 18th 2020
I can see that when giving feedback, sometimes you go through the sections one by one more thoroughly, and others you only seem to have enough time to give a vague overview. When being more vague, I think you provide the student with more confusion than anything else - for example, when you say "Your lines are wobble. Redo ur work." it's unclear which exercise you're talking about.
It's understandable that you may not have had much time to do this critique, but in those circumstances it might be better just to leave it to someone who does have time instead. Remember that the main focus of a critique is communicating with the student, so they clearly understand where they can improve.
11:07 AM, Tuesday August 18th 2020
after seeing ur reply i read some of ur reviews next time i will give full brief about their works and check everything and i will try to communicate with them and i have done same mistakes thank you for correcting me
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