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You're welcome! Mistakes happen, and we're all here to learn right?

So, I took a look at your revisions:

• Superimposed Lines look really good, you did a great job!

• On the rough perspective first page, your boxes were "falling" a bit to the left, the lines that should be parallel with the horizon are not parallel. But on the second page you got it better!

I'm marking it as complete now! Good luck moving forward!

Hey there juliocastro04. Congratulations on finishing lesson one! Here are my thoughts:

• Superimposed lines: the lines seem good, but there was a lot of fraying on both ends of the lines. Remeber that you don't have to rush to get the line started. Take your time, find the right spot to start, and then you should be quick and confident. Fraying the line's end is ok, but at the beginning of the line is something that shouldn't happen much!

• Ghosted lines and ghosted planes look good. A bit of arching mostly on the ghosted lines, but with time you will get more accuracy and confidence;

• Your tables of ellipses look really good! A few of them were made in a single line, remember to draw over them again once (for a 2 or 3 line ellipse), but still they are really impressive considering ellipses are one of the hardest parts of lesson one. Same goes for ellipses in planes and funnels;

• In the rough perspective exercise, did you do everything with a ruler, like in the plotted perspective? The lines seem way straighter than the rest of your homework. In this exercise you should use a ruler only for the horizon line in the middle and the line extensions. The boxes should be hand-drawn;

• Your rotated boxes have perspective issues, which is normal at this point. Some spacing issues too, maybe because you didn't draw the initial boxes at the end of each line, which are really useful as spacing guidelines;

• Organic perscpective also look ok, only perspective issues that are normal and will be covered in the 250 box challenge;

You did really good overall, but I'll be asking a few revisions below!

You're welcome! I know what you mean, reading the critiques really helped me to understand things I was not getting right too.

Have you been to the Draw a Box discord server? If you are having problems or doubts in specific exercises, you can get some quick and good advice on how to proceed, without having to wait days or weeks for a "full evaluation". It's really helpful!

Thank you so much for your critique, Weijak, I found it really constructive!

The link you posted is pretty similar to what I've been doing, except for finding the inner corner at step 4. I was only thinking about it as the last step, and the way you showed makes a lot of sense. Since I've been doing a couple boxes on my warmups, gonna try it.

About the fear of overshooting, also right. I feel that it got better as the challenge went on, but still suffering from it.

On the subject of line weight, I tried doing some external lines with more pressure to get thicker, but I usually would lose control, making the line wobbly. Since finishing the exercise, I joined the DaB discord server, and read many members talking about using superimposed lines for this purpose. Felt kinda silly for not realizing it hahaha (or reading, couldn't remember if it was on the lesson).

This past week since finishing the challenge has been more relaxed, I guess the exercise took its toll on me. Got really satisfied with my last drawings. Unfortunately I don't feel really confident for posting any art yet hahahaha but I'm sure you'll be seeing something from me in the near future.

Thanks again!

Hey there! Congratulations on finishing lesson one! You did all of the lessons in one go, in a single day? I'd suggest against doing it, as getting some spacing would help in learning and consolidating the concepts you are learning. Besides, it will be much easier to get burned out this way!

Here are some considerations:

• Your superimposed lines have some significant arching, and the photo cut the page on its left side. I can't evaluate the straight lines on their fraying, but on the curved lines there was some significant fraying in the starting edge. Remember to take your time in starting the line, focusing to always start at the same point. You only need to be quick after the line started;

• Ghosted lines have some wobbliness, be sure to keep confident and quickly trace it. Also, remember to keep the homework only with the assigned tasks. You could have used the space with "scribbling" and flow practice for more lines;

• Your tables of ellipses started good, but as it went down the page, there were too many lines. I guess you have drawn over them more than two or three times, which is not advised, as it will get really muddy, like in your page. Some others have been drawn over only once, which is also not advised;

• Your ghosted planes and ellipses in planes look good, just take care not to draw over the ellipses too much again;

• Funnels have some problems in aligning the minor axis, but still looks ok;

• On all boxes exercises, the hatching should be done as ghosted lines, not by simple scribbling. Also, remember to cover the whole page in your photos, so we can evaluate everything;

• The rotated boxes are hard to evaluate. It is too muddy due to the hatching;

• Yout homework is missing the organic perspective exercise;

I believe you should re-evaluate your work, study some lessons and exercises again. Don't give up, you'll see improvement!

Hey there! Congratulations on finishing lesson one, here are some observations:

• Superimposed lines look good, but I noticed you wrote that some were drawn with wrist and elbow, right? Remember that all homework here should be done with shoulder, even if you wand to practice it, it should be done away from the homeworks being submitted, ok?

• Same for the ghosted lines. A bit of arching, but it should be corrected with practice and time;

• Your ellipses look good and tight, but I'm having some difficulty to distinguish the lines. Did you use a thicker pen, or more than 2-3 times drawing over it? Remember that it should be ideally two times, and expecting a line thicknes similar to your other lines;

• The same applies to the ellipses in planes and funnels, here you can see a big difference between the planes an the ellipses lines;

• Rough and plotted perspective seem good, no problems;

• Rotated boxes and organic perspective have some perspective problems, but it is normal at this point. You'll improve it on the 250 box challenge later.

You've done a good job overall. Congratulations on finishing lesson 1!

• Superimposed and ghosted lines look good. Some arching on a few, but it seems that you managed to correct it on following exercises;

• Your planes look good and confident, with a good deal of variation on its forms. The same goes for the planes with ellipses;

• In all the ellipses exercises, it seems you have drawn over more than 2-3 times. Remember to keep ideally at 2 times, more than that gets a bit "muddy" to look;

• On the funnels, most of them seem good regarding the minor axis and symmetry. A few are off, but nothing to worry about;

• Plotted and rough perspective look good, but you could have used the page better and filled it with more boxes to practice more. Remember to take it as an opportunity to improve;

• Organic perspective have some perspective issues, which is normal at this point. Also could have done a few more boxes each page to practice more!

Well done! You can keep going in the course!

Hey, good job on finishing lesson one! You did great overall.

Here are some observations:

• Your superimposed lines look good and confident, as the ghosted lines. Not much wobbliness at all;

• Ghosted planes also look good, but you could have done a bit more variation with sizes and shapes, also to train on different ellipses sizes lates;

• Funnels look good, just be careful not to draw over the ellipses more than 2 or 3 times (ideally 2). Some of them got a bit wobbly, and not following the minor axis straight, but overall it is good;

• Rough perspective and rotated boxes are fine. Some perspective issues, but it is normal at this point of the exercises;

• Organic perspective also have some perspective issues, and quite a few lines you missed and had drawn over again. Remember not to draw over lines, even if they came out wrong. It is important to commit to you lines, even if they look bad, or did not reach the intended point. The perspective issues will be worked in the 250 box challenge.

I'm marking this as complete. Congratulations!

Hey there! Congratulations on finishing lesson one! Here are some observations:

• Your superimposed lines look good in general, but the curved ones have some fraying on the starting point. You have all the time you need for finding the first point, only after you start that you must be quick and confident. Remember to star your lines well. Since this problem only happens here, I guess you managed to improve after this exercise;

• Ghosted lines look good overall;

• Ghosted planes also look good, but you could've made so much more in that space. Try to fill out the whole page to practice more and get better!

• On the tables of ellipses, I feel you did too much of the same ellipse, you could get much more variation from this exercise! Also, after the first few lines you forgot to make the ellipses reach each other, and the tables lines. They sould be much tighter inside the tables;

• On Funnels, you could've drawn a few more in the pages, and they have some minor axis issues. Not only they are not being "cut in half", but most of the ellipses are not aligned with the minor axis. Review the lesson notes (and the video, it helps) to better understand the minor axis' importance!

• Plotted perspective and rough perspective look OK, but you have drawn over some lines a few times. Don't worry if your accuracy is not good, it will improve with time. Focus on clear lines, even if the don't hit the final point!

• Rotated boxes and organic perspective have some perspective issues, which is normal, due to the exercise's diffculty. On the organic boxes your lines seem much better than in the rest of the lesson (besides going over some of the muliple times), sou you can see a big improvement here!

I believe you should review some of the lessons and redo some of the exercises before proceeding. Below I have some more guidelines on this.

Still, don't give up! Take this as a big opportunity to improve!

Hey! Congratulations on finishing lesson one! Some points I'd like to mention:

• Your superimposed lines seem good and confident, and no fraying. You did a good job!

• On ghosted lines and ghosted planes you had a really good accuracy, but some "wobbliness" on them. The main here should be doing confident lines, so dont be afraid of sacrificing accuracy to get a better line. The same for the tables of ellipses, Funnels and Ellipses on planes;

• Also on ellipses on planes, take care not to draw over the ellipses too many times. Two times is ideal, on some of them it seems you went over three;

• Plotted perspective seems really good to me;

• On rotated boxes, you missed the box at each edge, but it seems good. Some perspective issues, but it is normal at this point;

• Organic perspective also had perspective issues, because it is supposed to be a difficult exercise. You'll improve on the 250 box challenge!

Marking this as complete, you did really good overall, and can proceed. Just remember to try making your lines mor confident, and don't care too much with accuracy at this point!