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It's a little late but thank you so much for the critique! It's very concise and helpful!

No need to apologize at all!

Thank you and take care!

In my opinion (I'm still "new" and on lesson 2, so wait for more people to chime in for this one), requesting feedback is probably the better idea.

When getting critique from someone, they can request revisions of certain exercises. So there isn't really any reason to completely start over if you've done a lot of things correctly.

Thank you so much for taking the time to critique the submission (and especially for the construction method link!)!

I'll take everything to heart for future lessons!

Also, I'll mention this in case you find someone with similar issues: the problem I had with Imgur is that rearranging (and other things) caused my browser to crash. I was using Safari but apparently it's not a good browser for the site and most issues can be solved by clearing the cache.

Anyway, thanks again and keep up the good work!

Congrats on finishing the lesson!

Coming straight from another similar homework, I have to ask: Is this your first time going through Drawabox? Because it's pretty excellent! Almost no common mistakes, so I'll just go over a few things:

Lines: There's some overshooting sometimes. That's completely fine, since confidence is a priority right now and the lines look straight and confident!

To avoid overshooting, you could maybe try two things:

1) Lifting your pen off the page the second you hit that end point

2) Looking at the end point the whole time and not the line while drawing it (This is what I do, hopefully the explanation makes sense)

Ellipses Some gaps between ellipses can be seen in the "funnels" exercise but the angle is correct and consistent.

The shapes of the ellipses vary a lot more in the first table but they get more consistent as you drew more of them, which isn't a mistake but just pointing out a noticeable improvement!

A tip I could give to make them more consistent right of the bat (this is something that works for me, at least) is to draw ellipses slowly. At least, slower than when ghosting straight lines.

Boxes: Not a lot to say here. Some overshooting a few times but that's really it. Really good display of understanding of the exercises.

Really great work all around!

Congratulations on completing the lesson!

This is really excellent! Could this be your second time going through Drawabox?

Regardless, you showed here a great understanding of the lessons. No real common mistakes can be seen, unless I start really nitpicking and select that one ellipse that overlaps another or something.

Congratulations on finishing the lesson! Let's take a look:

Lines: In the superimposed lines exercise, there is no fraying on both ends (which is good) but they do fray a lot.

Mostly due to the fact that there are a lot of curved lines instead of straight ones, which are harder to execute consistently. The ghosted lines initially wobble and miss, which is fine at the beginning. Especially since we can gauge the progress with the ghosted planes (it's almost the same thing, really).

The planes share the same rough nature at first but really improve! Looking at the planes in the "ellipses in planes" exercise, the planes seem to be newly drawn and not the ones from the first homework. The lines are, first and foremost, more confident but also more accurate! So good work!

Ellipses: Overlapping and leaving the bounds here-and-there are common mistakes, so it's good to see an effort in avoiding them. The shape of the ellipses varies a lot, so consider drawing ellipses a bit slowly than straight lines (that's what works for me at least). The ellipses in the funnels exercise show that you improved, so good work!

Boxes: The plotted perspective exercise looks good at first glance but off looking at it closely. Because some of the bolded edges don't align with the boxes underneath and some of the lines seem to miss the vanishing point. Not sure what's going on.

Rough perspective looks alright. Some line correction going on, which you should try to avoid doing but nothing major (I also do that sometimes).

The actual major thing is that the overextending lines don't match with some boxes on the second page. It's not expected for the student to nail the vanishing point but to be close enough and that is the case here. Also don't forget to ghost the lines to avoid wobble.

The rotated boxes exercise is actually pretty good! The gaps aren't all consistent but that's probably the most common mistake. Good work.

The organic exercise also looks pretty good. Some wandering lines and line correction going on, watch out for that. Making uniquely rotated boxes is tricky but it's important that you pulled through here and did the change in size well (which you did). General box construction and rotation is something you get better at in the 250 box challenge.

The biggest thing to take from this is to take your time with markmaking and try to approach ghosting more carefully. 2 more people need to look at this as well but, overall, I think I can mark the lesson as complete! Keep up the good work.

Alrighty! Looks like everything is done and I'll mark the lesson as complete! Keep up the good work!

Congratulations on completing the lesson!

Lines: You've showed a good understanding of the lesson requirements, hardly any sommon mistakes can be seen! The lines don't fray on both ends in the superimposed lines exercise, which is good! Large fraying on longer lines is normal and I think I see an effort to fix that, which is good as well.

Your ghosted lines are confident and get more accurate in the ghosted planes exercise (though some wobble can be seen).

Ellipses: One major thing is that there seems to be a missing page for the ellipse table exercise!

As with the lines, the ellipses also imporved as you drew more of them. In the ellipses in planes exercise, some are out of bounds but most are within the boundary of the plane, so good job overall. The ellipses in funnels show overlapping, which is hardly seen in other exercises.

Boxes: The boxes seem like the part of most struggle. Plotted perspective exercise turned out good. The rough perspective exercise also turned out good, though the lines seem a lot more wobbly and less accurate this time around. It makes a bit of sense for this exercise to end up like this because it is kind of hard to draw boxes in this perspective but with how the previous lines were, it makes me wonder if the ghosting was done correctly here.

The rotated boxes show rotation but they weren't kept close together, giving the overall exercise a square shape.

The organic perspective exercise looks good overall. A few boxes are larger than they are supposed to be but the main issue seems to be the construction of the boxes themselves.

Some sides of the boxes reach out too far outside of the box (I hope that makes sense). If you were to plot the lines towards a vanishing point, you would see that they wouldn't converge but rather move away from it.

Since the main issue is the boxes, I think I can safely say that the lessons are (almost!) cleared and you can move on to the boxes challenge! There you'll see a better explanation on how to draw boxes, which will prepare you for constructing forms!

Thank you so much! It means a lot!

The wobbly/curved lines might have been the product of me being tense at the beginning. I would hold the pen strongly and it ended up "jittering" sometimes. I noticed that I started to relax more later on.

I will try to be more patient and take my time with the ghosting as I do the 250 Boxes Challenge.

Again, thank you for taking your time to do this and Happy Holidays!