KobuRat

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    8:46 AM, Tuesday May 5th 2020
    Looking at your boxes, they show a lot of care and time spent, but I think you misunderstood the general direction of this assignment.  A lot of your boxes seem to be drawn in 1 point perspective, which isn't the point of this exercise.  Most obvious examples of one point perspective boxes to me are boxes 2, 3, 45, 58 (and many more).  There are a few boxes drawn well in 3-point perspective though, (box 36, 43, 47).  I think this might just be you trying to differentiate and make a bunch of different boxes, however, all of these boxes should be drawn in 3-point perspective.  The variability comes in where the vanishing points are on the boxes, rather than the type of perspective used.  I think the most clear example of this is on box 58.  
    
    Impressively, the parallel lines of the box are very well done, but you're losing out on the valuable practice of ghosting lines to an implied vanishing point.  Aside from a few boxes that I think suffer from some distortion issues (see https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7/distortion), most of them are immediately recognizable.  The effort this challenge requires makes me feel as though it would be inappropriate of me to direct you to try to tackle it again, as I feel it'd be better for your overall progress to try to continue on with the lessons.  
    
    My personal recommendation would be to review the lecture on perspective (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/6).  Rather than grinding away at another 250 boxes, I think it'd be best to incorporate at least a few boxes (**in three point perspective**) into your warm-up exercises.  If you're not warming up already, take a few exercises from the previous homework assignments and repeat them for your warm up.  I'd suggest incorporating this challenge into that warm up, drawing 3-5 boxes a day to solidify the concepts this challenge is meant to reinforce.  
    
    I'll mark this challenge as complete.

    Next Steps:

    From here, I'd recommend going on to lesson two. Incorporating this challenge into daily warm ups.

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
    10:30 PM, Saturday March 21st 2020

    Thank you for your critique! I appreciate you taking the time out to point out the errors I made when attempting this first lesson.

    I felt the most amount of unease when doing the ellipse exercises, I think mostly because I was not very used to making elipses with my shoulder muscles and found myself reverting to using my wrist time and time again. After some concerted focus and a warm up exercise, I found it becoming slightly easier. The funnels I found most challenging, trying to have my ellipses touch both sides of a curved line and widen the major axis as they got farther from the center. I definitely feel I have the most work to do on these kinds of smooth, flowing circular lines in my work, however.

    On your critique of the "Rotated Boxes" exercise, I totally didn't realize that I was failing to actually rotate the boxes and more allowing them to converge to the vanishing point. Thank you for pointing this out. I may try this exercise again when I've made some more progress in future lessons.

    As for the organic boxes exercise, I found my boxes initially quite difficult to interpret. I felt they kept "snapping" back and fourth between different interpretations in my mind and I used (admittedly way too much) line weight to try to force a single interpretation in my head. I did not use a different pen, just way too much apprehension on my part I think. Thankfully, I think the work I've put in so far into the 250 box challenge is helping alleviate some of that apprehension and I'm getting boxes that are much cleaner looking.

    Again, thank you for taking the time to critique my work. I really appreciate it.

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