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5:00 PM, Tuesday August 25th 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Your superimposed lines are looking pretty good. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point on these and keeping your fraying to the opposite end. This is a nice start. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out very well. You are doing a great job with the ghosting method and are achieving some very confident linework with a nice deal of accuracy which will only get better over time.

The table of ellipses exercise is also a pretty good start. There's obviously plenty of room for improvement here but you are doing a good job drawing through all of your ellipses and are shooting for a an overall smooth ellipse shape. This is carried over very well into your ellipses in planes. You are doing a great job focusing on getting a smooth ellipse shape instead of focusing on accuracy which tends to lead to wobbly and distorted ellipses. The ellipses in funnels feel a tad rushed as you aren't really drawing through completely on a lot of these ellipses but are instead drawing through like 1-1/2 times. Try and shoot for 2 - 3 times max. There's still plenty of work to be done with your ellipses but these are on the right track so keep practicing them during your warmups.

Plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes turned out pretty well. You did a great job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will get better with practice. I'm noticing a little bit of wobble in your lines again which is a pretty typical thing I see for this exercise. I think this tends to happen because this is the first exercise where you have to integrate all of the previous skills you learn with spatial thinking which tends to lead to skipping steps in the ghosting method or reverting to drawing from the wrist for some of these shorter lines. So I'd just like to remind you to always ghost your lines and then draw from the shoulder with confidence. Even on short lines like these.

Your rotated box exercise turned out decently. I think you are running more heavily into the wobbly line problem I was discussing previously and you are also starting to redraw lines which is something you want to try and avoid. You did a nice job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You aren't quite nailing your rotations yet but this is to be expected as this is a hard exercise overall and is a good one to come back to after you have done the 250 box challenge. Finally your organic perspective exercise is looking good. Your line quality here is much improved over the previous two exercises and it looks like you are ghosting and drawing from the shoulder again for the most part. Your box convergences are looking pretty decent for the most part but you are going to get a lot more practice with this during the 250 box challenge.

Overall, this was a really good submission with a nice amount of growth. You are doing a good job understanding most of the concepts these lessons and exercises are trying to convey. The ellipses still feel like a bit of a weak point so I would recommend focusing on them during your warmups for the near future. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
10:54 PM, Tuesday August 25th 2020

Thank you so much. I appreciate your very comprehensive and detailed feedback!

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