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    1:40 PM, Saturday December 12th 2020

    Hi!

    I'll start by saying that I liked your attempt. The boxes are big so you could draw more easily with your elbow and many of them seem very solid and sell well the illusion of three-dimensionality.

    I find it remarkable that you decided to start from scratch after you stumbled and finally completed the challenge! You may have rushed, but I believe that's something we all end up doing with this challenge at some point!

    In the first few pages, there are many attempts for each line when it should be a single, confident line. But that's something you seem to have corrected as you progressed.

    Moreover, the line extensions overlap too much in some pages making them hard to decipher. The advantage of being that long, however, is that one can see if they converge to the same vanishing point or not and you seem to have managed to do so in many of them. Also, I didn't see any lines extended in the wrong direction.

    As you also mentioned in your critique of my attempt, I did see that there wasn't too much variance in the shape of the boxes. There are some pages where it looks like you tried to experiment a bit though. A suggestion could be - before drawing the next shape, try and take a moment to plan it a bit in your head and ghost the lines to understand more or less where you'd like to put them.

    Regarding the lineweight, all lines seem to have the same, just like in my own attempt. It might be good to try and add it in further exercises.

    Generally speaking it looks to me like a really good attempt!

    Next Steps:

    Continue to lesson 2

    Try and experiment with the shapes a bit more.

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    1:04 PM, Saturday December 12th 2020

    Hi!

    First of all thank you for your time and your useful critique!

    Now, I did increase the number of boxes per page, a little bit because I kind of felt "rushed" to finish since it took me a LOT of time. But I know this isn't the best approach. The second reason is that I kind of felt guilty for the number of sheets of paper that I was using ahahah

    But I see your point and I agree - being able to draw longer extensions makes it easier to understand one's accuracy.

    Also, I tried to add lineweight in some pages but I didn't do it consistently throughout the whole challenge.

    A lot of times happened that I could draw the first three sides pointing more or less at the same vanishing point but the fourth, the one extended from the hidden vertex, usually shot in a different direction for almost all three dimensions. That's something that I struggled with many times.

    Anyhow, I'm glad you found it a really good job!

    I'll try to critique your attempt as well!

    5:15 PM, Thursday October 1st 2020

    Hi! Thank you very much for taking the time to go through my exercises and critique them!

    -Super Imposed lines

    I actually had trouble finding a good speed with the longer ones. I tried both going slower or faster and it resulted in those wollby lines

    -Ghosted lines

    I tried really hard to use the shoulder but I ended up leaning on the table often times, limiting my arms movements to those of the elbow.

    -Funnels

    I see. I didn't get that! Thanks.

    -Rotated boxes

    That's so nice to hear! :D

    Yeah, I had trouble rotating them and ended up not doing so enough.

    Before every session I always try to draw the ellipses in the ghosted planes and my lines are getting a little better though I do still have a tendency to arch them. I'll try your suggestion and upload the two pages of ghosted planes soon.

    Thank you very much again!!

    EDIT: I've posted the extra two pages of Ghosted Lines

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