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10:44 PM, Monday April 13th 2020

Howdy, TA qzhans here!

First, superimposed lines. In general, there’s not too much wobble here and good job keeping track of the fraying at the starting points. I do wish you would’ve attempted a few longer ones however. Something to think about during warm-ups.

Moving onto ghosted lines, there’s some expected arcing here but overall I can see good confidence. Complaint here is the same as superimposed lines.

Your ghosted planes show the same good stuff. I do like how you aren’t afraid of your mistakes; I don’t see any redrawing of lines that missed the mark.

Moving onto your ellipse tables, I like that you're keeping your ellipses tightly packed within the bounds that you've set, and drawing through each one. There’s expected room for improvement in getting them to be completely tight and tidy, but it’s clear you understand the exercise.

Your ellipses in planes show and improvement in the smoothness realm. There’s some deformation here and there, resulting in a few eggs, but in general you’ve kept it under control.

Next, your funnels generally do a good job of aligning to the minor axis that you've set and I have few complaints. However, I do notice that you forgot to draw the minor axis here and there, so make sure to keep an eye on that.

No problems with plotted perspective!

For your rough perspective, for the most part, you’ve extended your lines properly to the horizon line but there are a few places that you forgot to. Also, there’s a little bit of degradation in your line work, with an extra line here and there, perhaps to correct some perceived mistake. Remember that all lines we put down are law, and laying down more lines to fix something will only create more contradictions and draw eyes to a mistake.

And now, the one you’ve been waiting for: rotated boxes. Before anything, I wanted to congratulate you on its completion; it's not something you're supposed to be ready for. In general, the understanding of rotation is quite good here. There are a few places where I noticed you didn’t draw through your boxes however. And again, the issue with re-drawing lines appears again here, perhaps from trying to add line weight.

Finally, onto organic perspective. In general, your boxes do a good job of shrinking and growing as they move through space. However, I don’t see any overlapping of your boxes. There's work to be done in getting those parallel lines to converge to their shared vanishing point, but you can iron that out with the box challenge.

Overall, there’s good understanding of the lesson instructions but it seems that there’s a little bit of a loss in patience during the frustrating stuff. Thus, I want to a page of rough perspective from you before I mark this lesson complete. Really take your time on these and remember that I'm looking for diligence, not accuracy.

Next Steps:

1 Page Rough Perspective

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4:06 AM, Sunday May 3rd 2020

Hello

https://imgur.com/XyHjIGF

Thank you very much!

10:18 PM, Monday May 4th 2020

Hey, these are looking better! While your reinforcing lines are still a little wobbly, I like that you've resisted the urge to re-draw reinforcing lines when they didn't go your way, and overall the impression is much neater. Make sure to continue to do this exercise and the line exercises during warm-ups, and really solidify that linework. For now however, good luck on the 250 box challenge!

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge

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4:44 AM, Thursday May 7th 2020

Thank you :D

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