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Thank you for your time and many, many useful remarks! They are of great help.

Take care!

Thank you for your critique and much appreciated tips ScyllaStew! :)

Your videos and documenting your journey going through the exercises on YouTube helped me a lot, so I am happy that you were the one to rate this challenge.

And thanks for letting me know about self-critique. I'll be sure to keep that in mind in my future posts.

Take care!

Hi Benj,

thank you for your thorough critique!

I have taken notes at yours suggestions and I'll be sure to remember about them while revisiting Lesson 1 during warmups and doing further lessons.

I must say I have trouble understanding this part of your critique, regarding funnels:

There’s the occasional misalignment, and the occasional construction issue (fix the former by spend a little longer on the ghosting stage, not forgetting to rotate the page as necessary, and the latter by spending more time planning your construction), but that’s alright.

What does it mean to plan the construction of the funnel? Do you mean spacing / degree of the ellipses? I just want to be sure I understood everything.

I have also taken a second attempt at rough perspective. I must say, after three months and looking at Lesson 1 again more throughly, I can't believe I did such a lousy and messy job first time. The second time around went a bit better, but there's still (and I guess always will be) much room for improvement.

Here's a link:

https://imgur.com/gallery/647c9T5

I'd appreciate if you could revise it.

Thank you!

Hi Nirvik!

Congratulations on finishing your first lesson!

The line exercise looks great – line quality is good and they are not wobbly. I would encourage you to include superimposed lines in your warm-ups and maybe try with shorter lines first, and then, after doing a few shorter lines, go for the full-page-width lines. It should lessen the fraying.

You've done well with ellipses as well – they are mostly kept within the bounds of the table / plane and few of them are overlapping. While constructing your future warmups, I would include funnels – they should be symmetrical, when cut in half.

I personally struggled with the rotating exercise boxes and you've done great. Congrats!

About last pages – those with organic perspective – the lines seem a bit lighter and less confident then on previous pages. Remember to ghost the lines and try to perform them with confidence.

Finally, looking at the boxes, I can say that perspective is a bit off – but it's completely normal at the beginning! 250 boxes challenge is a great method of figuring out how convergence in boxes work and help you with estimating free-hand perspective.

Keep up the good work!

Good luck!

Thank you so much for your time and critique @GABYNMRTO!

I will spend more time doing ellipses in my warm-up time, for some reason I keep avoiding them and there is so much to be improved about them, so thank you for pointing that out.

After 4 months I have managed to finish 250 boxes and I think I have improved slightly, I will post them today.

Thanks again!