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12:25 PM, Monday December 21st 2020
  1. Lines look excellent to me, very straight, very precise.

  2. Ellipses have a great flow and smoothness, though I think we are advised to loop two max three times, I suspect you may going round a few more times which can make it hard to see where the real shape is.

  3. Perspective. Plotted Perspective is fine. With the Rough Perspective, I think the side facing the viewer should not be slanted, in effect a 2D rectangle with to sets of equal, parallel line. In some instances the sides facing the viewer converge which doesn't work with One Point Perspective and I think undermines the rest of the drawing. Not a big deal, we'll all be drawing so many more boxes before this is over. The Rotate Boxes looks great, though I think I see in the construction some extra lines which feels more like how one draws when sketching in pencil but I think on Drawabox we are only meant to draw the lines we plan to use. The Organic Perspective looks great with a nice flow and good sense of depth.

I personally you shouldn't have any problem moving on to the next stage, which I think is the 250 Box Challenge.

4:49 AM, Sunday December 27th 2020

Many thanks for giving your honest critique, I'm looking forward to read more constructive observations in the future.

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