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9:37 PM, Friday January 21st 2022

Hi there, and congrats on completing Lesson 1!

Some comments from me:

  • your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. That's great to see so many page-width ones, and some arcing ones, too.

  • the ghosted lines/planes are very confident, too. You’ve kept them smooth and straight, the whole way through the page, and not forgotten about the start/end points of the non-diagonal center lines – well done.

  • the table of ellipses exercise looks really good. I don't think i see any "pointy" ellipses there, so it means that you use your shoulder when making marks.

  • the funnels look solid. Just be sure that the minor axis extends all the way through your ellipses; or, conversely, if there’s no more minor axis, simply don’t add another ellipse – it’ll be one aligned to nothing, and that’s not of much use to the exersice.

  • The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

  • The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and improves considerably throughout the set. My only suggestion here, really, would be to not stick to your original guesses. In other words, after you’ve plotted a point, check it, by ghosting it to the horizon, and altering it as needed, before committing to it.

  • The rotated boxes exercise looks good. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and properly rotating. The boxes themselves aren’t always correct, as per you being forced to prioritize their neighboring edges above all else, but that’s perfectly fine. You'll have a lot of practice when you do 250 box challenge ;)

  • The organic perspective exercise looks great. As per their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening, your boxes flow as intended.

Next Steps:

Great job on this lesson. I think you are ready to move right on to the box challenge. Good luck!

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 4 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
1:18 PM, Wednesday January 26th 2022

Hey!

thank you for the really detailed feedback. Very much appreciated.

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