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Thanks! And sorry for the late reply - I was working in a grey toned Stillman and Birn Nova Series 6"x9".

This is a good improvement! I can see that your sets of lines are doing a better job of converging towards their shared vanishing points.

Keep in mind that when you are applying your extra line weight you should be applying it to the silhouette of your boxes for this exercise. Extra line weight should never be used to hide or correct mistakes.

To answer your question; you can ghost to the vanishing point if you want, so long as what you do doesn't put marks on the page while you are ghosting.

I will go ahead and mark this lesson as complete and you can now move onto lesson 2!

This is a good improvement overall! I can see your boxes are drawn at a much better size and you have your sets of lines converging more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.

A few things I want to point out before passing you onto lesson 2 first.

When it comes to your hatching I can see you are still struggling with executing your marks confidently. In some areas it looks as though you may be rushing a bit too. As I said before in your critique, "when you are working through Drawabox you should be employing the ghosting method for every mark you make. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use for our boxes."

When employing the ghosting method you are meant to take as much time as you need to plan and prepare your marks so that you can execute them confidently. There is no set limit on how long or how many times you should be ghosting. Just do it for as long as you need in order to maintain confidence in your mark making.

This brings me to your extra line weight where I can see a bit of this as well. Keeping in mind the advice I have given above, I would recommend that you try only adding one pass of line weight to your boxes as you do them in your warm ups. This will help you identify mistakes in your execution that can sometimes get lost when students go too heavy on the line weight.

Remember that you are meant to add a subtle amount of extra weight to the outer edges of your boxes, as shown here.

All that being said I will now mark this lesson as complete and you can continue to lesson 2!

Thank you for the new picture. It looks like you are doing a better job of getting your sets of lines to converge towards their shared vanishing points.

Keep in mind, as you continue to draw more complex forms, you should be taking your time at each step of your construction to ensure that you are employing the ghosting method correct and constructing your forms correctly as well.

I noticed a few areas where the quality of your mark making dips and your lines appear less confident in many areas as well.

All that being said, you can now continue to lesson 2!

Good luck!

It looks like you did forget a few things when working on these boxes. As I can see many of your sets of lines are diverging, likely due to you trying to keep your sets of lines purposefully parallel on the 2d page.

I recommend that you go back and reread the lesson material in it's entirety and the critique I wrote previously.

Once you have done that I will need to you draw 15 additional boxes showing your sets of lines converging towards their shared vanishing points.

I would also like to point out that your work looks a bit rushed in some areas and your mark making is not looking very confident. You should reread this section as well and maybe do a few warm ups from lesson one to bring you back up to speed from your warm ups.

Could you resubmit that first page you linked again? The image you provided is too blurry for me to properly discern your work.

Thank you.

Your sets of lines are doing a better job of converging towards their shared vanishing points now! I also see that your boxes are more varied in size and foreshortening.

I did notice that your lines start to arc and become less confident looking in a few areas. Make sure that you are taking the time to ghost all of your lines. Take as much time as you need to execute each step of your construction confidently, especially when you begin to construct more complex forms like boxes.

I will go ahead and mark this lesson as compelte and you can now move onto lesson 2!

This is a good improvement overall. I can see some good improvement in the quality of your mark making. Your sets of lines are also doing a better job of converging towards their shared vanishing point.

I will go ahead and mark this lesson as complete and you can now move onto lesson two.

I'm marking this challenge as complete.

I was studying at NSCAD which is a Canadian art school.