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8:48 AM, Thursday April 18th 2024

Oh hey! I also looked at your old Lesson 1 submission! (So hopefully you didn’t resubmit cuz you didn’t like the TA in charge of it, ahahah.) Jokes aside, let’s take this one exercise at a time.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re all smooth, properly lined up on the left, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines look quite confident also, and I appreciate that you’re lifting your pen off the page at the end of them – makes them look nice and dynamic! Obviously you’re missing your end points by quite a lot at times, as a result of this, but it’ll get better as you keep practicing, so don’t get discouraged! Save for those occasional accuracy issues, your planes are also looking solid. I’m glad to see so many of them on your page, too! Good attitude!

Onto the ellipse section, your ellipses are looking good. They’re a little same-y (so you’ll want to vary their degrees/angles a little more, moving forward), but in terms of their smoothness/roundness/rotations, they’re looking good! You will flick your pen off the page at the end of them, sometimes, which leads to some ugly tails, so consider lifting it as you did in the ghosted lines exercise (or at least, trying to do so consistently!) Also, see if you can’t force yourself to stick to a maximum of 2 rotations moving forward. You’ll find it much easier to spot your own mistakes like this. The ellipses in planes do a good job of maintaining that same smoothness/roundness despite these more complicated frames. The funnels, too, are looking nice and confident, but they do have some spacing issues, so you might’ve benefitted from ghosting each ellipse a little longer. Try not to be arbitrary about the amount – be deliberate: ghost until you feel ready!

As for the box section, the plotted perspective exercise starts things off well. You should’ve used a ruler for your hatching lines here, but it’s minimal. The plotted perspective exercise starts off strong and shows some good improvement throughout the set. By the end, your convergences are on-point, and your lines are confident and dynamic. Your rotated boxes exercise looks great! It’s big, its boxes are snug, and they rotate nicely. They rotate a little too quickly, which is why there’s less of them than you might’ve wanted near the edges, but that’s not an issue~ What’s important is that even like this, you’ve correctly identified and used the neighboring edges. On the subject of boxes, the organic perspective exercise looks great. Your boxes here are well constructed, and they flow well as a result of their size/foreshortening. The occasionally sloppy (I suspect you drew these lines a little too fast) hatching does distract sometimes, but it’s a minor thing in the whole scheme of things.

Next Steps:

Overall, you’ve done well, and are free to move on to the box challenge. Since you’ve done it before, you can (unless you want to do it again!), submit it as-is, with an added 50 boxes that you do now. Please specify this in the submission, if you choose to do it, so the TA focuses their critique around those 50 boxes. Good luck!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
12:46 PM, Thursday April 18th 2024

OH shhh, LOL. Thank you for being my TA again (I stopped last time cause I burned out lol), your feedback is super helpful! I look forward to your critiques in the future o7

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