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3:46 PM, Wednesday September 2nd 2020
Congratulations on finishing a long and difficult challenge!
Even though sometimes the lines are off, you did a great job drawing just one confident straight line, without second guessing yourself, wobbling, or drawing over them. You have a good variety of different shapes and orientations of box, which shows that you explored the rotations and 3D space.
I can see that you sometimes extended the lines in the wrong direction, but you also seem to have noticed as you did that and self corrected. Sometimes if a box comes out really off, it can be hard to determine which way the converging lines should come off, but a good general rule is to extend them away from the first Y that you drew when creating the box.
Next Steps:
Try giving more line weight to the outer edges of the boxes. It's not required for you to repost, but I think you should give it a try (do a couple of pages of your boxes) to see how that changes the looks of the boxes, and also to practice superimposing lines with accuracy to add line weight.
Move on to lesson 2. Try giving critiques to other students.
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Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.