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12:38 AM, Friday January 26th 2024

Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. Next, your ghosted lines and planes are looking similarly confident. It would've been good to have seen a little more variation in the lengths of the lines you chose for ghosted lines, but they're coming out well, with only very minor arcing.

Ellipses

Next, your tables of ellipses are looking good. The ellipses themselves are smooth and confident, and you've done a good job of getting those ellipses sitting tight up against with each other in a variety of shapes and sizes. You're occasionally going around the ellipse more than the requisite 2-3 times, which makes them look somewhat visually 'heavy', so try to stick to twice.

Your ellipses in planes are looking pretty good - you're doing a good job keeping them confident and touching the four sides of the plane for the most part. There are a couple of instances I can see where the ellipses have ended up deformed.

Finally in this section, your funnels are off to a good start in terms of getting the ellipses aligned with the minor axis - of course there are spots where you didn't quite nail it and I can tell you got into your own head a little bit as the ellipses are less confident that the ones you drew up till this point.

Boxes

Onto your rough perspective and you've made clear efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a fairly reasonable margin of error. There are a few confidence issues here and there but this is fairly common and just a matter of taking your time to plan and execute each line.

You're doing a good job keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent on your rotated boxes, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. I've never seen a student start with such a large centre box, which also looks like you might've used a ruler? Other than the axes and the boxes on their poles, the exercise is intended to be done freehand. You didn't manage to capture the full range of rotation, tending to follow the vanishing point of the box you previously put down and elongate your boxes, however this exercise is intended only as an introduction to certain concepts you will explore further throughout the course.

Finally, you're getting a pretty good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise which is starting to create a sense of depth in each frame. It's good to see you've crammed in as many boxes as you can and your line confidence is not too bad for the most part, though it does seem like you struggled a little on the smaller boxes. This is pretty normal however as smaller lines from the shoulder tend to require more fine control over the muscles that you may not have necessarily built yet.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
7:08 AM, Saturday January 27th 2024
edited at 11:51 AM, Feb 11th 2024

Thanks

edited at 11:51 AM, Feb 11th 2024
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