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7:26 PM, Thursday February 20th 2020
Hey there, Mothil! Welcome to Drawabox and congrats on completing the first lesson! My name is Sluggy, one of the TAs, and I'll be going over your submission today. Let me know if you have any questions at the end, we're always happy to help!!
Lines
You've got some very nice, clean work here, and it only improves as your homework submission goes on. That's great to see! You have very little evidence of a wobble, though I will note that I see a bit of fraying at the start of your superimposed lines. This may mean that you need to slow down just a touch, in order to thoughtfully place your pen down at the start. Likewise, with your ghosted lines, the tail end is a bit too sharp. This improves with your ghosted, planes, however, so you're clearly quickly moving in the right direction! From here, you'll want to continue utilizing the ghosting technique to work on your accuracy and hitting that end point without over or undershooting.
Ellipses
These look great! Smooth marks, excellent control - your ellipses are sitting snugly in their planes, tables, and funnels. I spy a wobble in a few of them, but it's inconsistent, so I think you've got a good handle on this mark. From here, you'll want to continue tightening everything up by drawing through your ellipses a few more times.
Really nice work with your funnels. You keep your ellipses well aligned with that minor axis. This will be especially important for later lessons, when you're working with the ellipses more frequently.
Rough Perspective
Really nice perspective work here! You've got your parallels horizontal to the horizon and your verticals perpendicular, which helps eliminate unnecessary guess work. Your depth lines are all fairly accurate as well, so I think your sense of 3D is either already well in place or developing nicely!
Your line work does suffer a touch. The wobble becomes very apparent here. If it helps, try to think of each box as a collection of ghosted lines, rather than you trying to construct the idea of a box. In all, you should be applying ghosting and other mark-making techniques to each line in a box.
Rotated Boxes
Really solid attempt at this challenge! Your lines look better, but moreover, you keep the gaps between your boxes pretty evenly sized and the rotation across the entire image is pretty consistent. Your hatch marks kind of mudy up the image in that they're hatching the space between the boxes instead of the inside-facing faces of the boxes, but overall, nice work here.
If you attempt this challenge again and want to achieve a fuller rotation, focus on the VP of each box. You want it to be moving past the VP of the previous box far enough that that the box rotates rather than simply moves back in space.
Organic Perspective
Really nice clean work here! I'm so glad to see such an improvement in your box-building lines after the rough perspective exercise. Your lines here look great! While you do have a few convergence errors, that's nothing the 250 box challenge can't help with. Overall, very nice work here!
Next Steps:
You're quickly moving in the right direction! Continue to give your mark-making a lot of practice during warm-ups with deliberate use of the ghosting technique. I'm happy to mark this as complete and send you on to the 250 box challenge. Good luck!
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