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3:55 PM, Sunday June 21st 2020
Hello and congrats on finishing lesson 1. I'll be looking over your work today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are on the right track. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point on these and while you are getting quite a bit of tapering your lines are stay smooth and confident and not tapering very improvement. Plenty of room for improvement on these though. Moving onto your ghosted lines and planes. These are coming along nicely as well. You are cleary using the ghosting method on these and getting smooth confident lines for the most part. You are having a bit of an arcing issue on some of these which you might want to look out for but nothing major. Your accuracy on these will grow the more and more you practice.
Your table of ellipses turned out decently. Great job drawing through your ellipses here and while your accuracy could be better on these you seem to be more focused on trying to get a solid ellipse shape which is completely fine and I'm already seeing improvement by the second page. Your ellipses in planes could use some work in regards to accuracy but I'm glad you are focused more on maintaining that solid ellipse shape. Like I said accuracy will come naturally with practice and it's not something you want to force early on. The funnels exercise was even better and I'm not seeing too many issues besides the accuracy thing I've already been mentioning so good job there. There is still plenty of work to be done on your ellipses but you are on the right track so keep practicing them and doing them in your warm ups.
Plotted perspective looks great no issues here. Your rough perspective exercise is looking very good. You are keeping up with the ghosting and your linework is nice and confident for the most part. I am noticing a bit of wobble on some of the shorter lines so I just want to remind you that you should ghost every single line you put down in these lessons no matter how short it is. You did a good job extending all of your boxes back and checking your work as well. This should really show you how off you were in some of your perspective estimations and you will also improve with this over time.
The rotated box exercise came out pretty good. This one can be a real struggle for some but you handled it well. Good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are having a bit of an issue with your boxes not rotating enough which is a pretty common mistake. Instead you are simply moving some of the boxes back in perspective. Please check the lesson notes here https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Finally, your organic boxes were okay. Good linework on these and while you were having some problems with box convergences this will improve a lot as you go through the 250 box challenge. Overall, this was a very good submission and I'm going to mark this lesson as complete. Keep practicing those ellipse exercises and good luck with the 250 box challenge.
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