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8:20 PM, Thursday June 18th 2020
Hello and congrats on completing lesson 1. I'll be looking over your submission. Starting with your superimposed lines these are all very well done. You are working pretty hard for accuracy on these and it isn't giving you much wobble or tapering so good work here. Moving onto your ghost lines these are look good as well. You accuracy is on point here and you are getting smooth and straight confident lines. This is carried over very nicely with your ghosted planes.
Moving onto you tables of ellipses these could use a bit more work. You are trying to shoot for the same level of accuracy as your straight lines but this is causing you to slightly deform the shape of your ellipses a bit as you are trying to be too accurate. You are much better off ghosting these multiple times and then committing to smoother ellipses that might go out of the bounds a little bit. Right now your appear to be slowing down to get a more accurate ellipse that stays within the bounds and it's starting to cause deformities in your ellipse shape. Start working on getting smoother ellipses over all and the accuracy will come with more practice. This problem is even more apparent with your ellipses in planes and funnels. Other than that these are all well done and great job drawing through your ellipses.
Plotted perspective looks great no problems here. Your rough perspective boxes are looking pretty good and it looks you even improved a bit by the second page. Great job extending your lines back and checking your work on these. I am noticing a bit more wobble on these compared to your planes and I just want to remind you that you should be ghosting every line you make when you are working through these lessons.
Your rotated box exercise is looking pretty good. Nice job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps fairly narrow and consistent. You are running into the common mistake of not rotating your boxes enough and some are simply moving back into perspective. Please check the lesson here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating . Finally your organic perspective exercise turned out really well for the most part and I'm not even seeing many convergence issues with your boxes so great job there. Overall this was a high quality submission and you should be really proud of the work you've done here. Keep practicing those ellipses and good luck with the 250 box challenge.
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