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Fracedi

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    3:49 AM, Thursday March 11th 2021

    Again, great job on completing lesson one! Your next stage is the 250 Box Challenge.

    Next Steps:

    Take on the 250 Box Challenge. It might take a while, but you'll learn a whole ton from it.

    Additionally, I encourage giving critiquing a try. Not only does it help solidify the concepts you've already learned, but it lessens the amount of submissions sent in and people could reach your submission faster. It's completely optional, but I highly recommend it.

    Here's a guide that helps if you feel a bit lost: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

    Have fun on the 250 Box Challenge, and I wish you good luck on the rest of your draw-a-box ventures.

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    8:21 AM, Tuesday March 9th 2021

    Hi Dodomon! Here's my critique of your homework:

    Lines

    Your lines are done very nicely. They're confidently drawn and you're generally accurate with your lines. A few of the superimposed lines fray on both sides, but you seemed to have gotten the hang of it by the second page. I also notice that some lines are repeated, especially during the boxes exercises. I would encourage you to not correct a line, no matter how bad it looks, and instead accept the mistake and move on. It's painful, but a must when it comes to embracing your mistakes and learning from them.

    Ellipses

    Looks good as well, none of them are visibly out of bounds or overlapping each other. I would've experimented a little more with dividing the spaces in the Tables of Ellipses exercise, but you did a good job at keeping consistent angles, staying in bounds, and drawing each ellipse confidently.

    Boxes

    You did great on Plotted Perspective. However, you made the mistake of plotting your depth lines (drawn in pencil) back to the vanishing point on your Rough Perspective drawings when the depth lines should extend straight towards the horizon line. Keep in mind that the exercise's purpose is to understand how lines behave on their own and to improve your estimation. Those depth lines show you how far off you were from the vanishing point. As for the Rotated Boxes exercise, the boxes don't seem to be converging hard enough, notably on the left side. Regardless, these boxes are really well drawn and your Organic Perspective work was done great for a beginner.

    You say it was hard for you to concentrate well, but I think you did awesome on Lesson 1! There's tiny flaws here and there, but judging on how you did, these will be diminished quickly as you continue into the later lessons and challenges... but I do ask of you to revise the Rough Perspective work in order to completely understand the exercise.

    Next Steps:

    A revision of the "Rough Perspective" exercise. (You did the depth lines in pencil, so hopefully it won't be too much of a problem to fix that)

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    12:24 AM, Friday November 13th 2020

    Tysm!! I will follow your advice and try to write critiques for others when possible.

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    12:22 AM, Friday November 13th 2020

    Thank you!! I will do my best to follow your advice!

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