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4:23 AM, Sunday December 6th 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes still have a bit of wobble to them. You do seem to be ghosting and drawing from the shoulder but I think you are still a tad too concerned with accuracy at this point and are slowing down your stroke to compensate. One of the reasons we use the ghosting method is to build up the muscle memory of the stroke before we make this. This way when we go to make our mark we can do so almost without thinking. This will lead to a smoother but less accurate line at first. The more you practice this though the more accurate you will get it.

Your table of ellipses is having largely the same issue with deformed ellipses. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed you are doing a nice job drawing through all of your ellipses but like I mentioned earlier I think you are still just a bit too concerned with accuracy at this point. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting. Your ellipses in planes are looking pretty much the same as your ellipses in table. I am seeing a bit of improvement on your ellipses in funnels in terms of consistent smooth ellipse shapes which is good to see. Seeing the improvements in your ellipses in funnels I think your ellipses are on the right track now but there's plenty of work to be done here. Keep practicing these during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes turned out pretty good. I'm noticing a tendency to redraw lines here which is a habit I would like you to break. Try and put down a single line and stick with it even if it's slightly off. This will make the image less confusing and neater overall. Once again I think you are occasionally getting wobbly lines because you are slowing down your stroke for accuracy or you might be reverting back to drawing from your wrist for some of these shorter lines. That's up to you figure out. You did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but this will become more intuitive with practice.

Your rotated box exercise turned out really well! I like that you drew this nice and big as that helps with thinking through compelx spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps consistent. You didn't nail all of your rotations but you did pretty well for the most part so nice job there. Your organic perspective exercise turned out pretty well. You seem to be getting more comfortable with the ghosting method and drawing from the shoulder and your linework is looking much more confident here which is great to see. Your box constructions are fairly decent as well but I still think the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a solid submission with some real nice growth shown in terms of line quality and confidence by the last exercise. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey fairly well. I'm going to mark this as compelte and good luck with the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

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8:14 AM, Sunday December 6th 2020

Thank you very much for your insight, I will start working on the 250 box challenge right away and will use the items in this lesson as my daily warm-ups as suggested and will hopefully manage to correct myself through practice over the next two weeks.

Thank you again!

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