I think you did well for the most part. My critique would go to the rotating boxes and the planes with ellipses. With the rotating boxes exercise, it was a little hard for me to tell the boxes following the overlapping loop perspective (sorry if I'm not making sense). Though, I think it's excusable! My second critique for the ellipses on the planes is it seems you're not really as confident with drawing them. Try to reduce circling around up to 2-3 rounds and make sure you're at a comfortable angle when you draw those ellipses! They're hard to do.
Next Steps:
Like I said in my critique, I think its good for you to redo the ellipses exercise only with the planes. I feel as though your ellipses are not confident enough because to me most of them seem to come out of the plane or you're circling it too much. Try to be less anxious about keeping it in, rely a little on ghosting and do it 3 times. Then try to only draw 2 laps for 2 times. Avoid going too slow.
Thank you!
I will redo the ellipses.
These are my revisions.
ok I think you did better. Try to practice that as you continue, do a few planes with ellipses as warm ups before the boxes exercises because i found that it helped me! even in future lessons and exercises, its good to do. Good luck, I say you deserve to pass! sorry for taking so long to answer. I'm in college and i had two tests to study for.
Next Steps:
Do the lines & ellipses exercises as warm-ups for future lessons. dont abandon those fundamental exercises as you move forward!
Thank you for taking the time. I will use the exercise in my warm up!
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