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5:58 AM, Sunday May 24th 2020

You're welcome!

It seems like you've gotten much more confident with your ellipses, and while there is a bit of deformation to make them fit in the plane they're looking much smoother.

Your rough perspective is also looking much better. The lines are smoother and the boxes are mostly on the right track, though you still need to watch out for the width and height lines of your boxes. There are still a few cases where they aren't at the right angle to the horizon (width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines should be perpendicular).

Your organic perspective also looks much better. One thing to remember is that your boxes will never converge toward the viewer (left face of the box will always converge to a vanishing point on the left, right face of the box will always converge to a vanishing point on the right, and if you can see the top plane of the box then it will converge to a vanishing point below the box).

Next Steps:

Your confidence has improved a lot, and I'm glad to see you aren't trying to re-do your lines. I'm also glad you're trying not to grind these exercises (remember, the point is not to do them perfectly). Keep doing these exercises as warm ups and move on to the 250 box challenge.

You are also now qualified to critique other lesson 1 submissions. I highly suggest you do give it a shot, as it will help the community and yourself as well. The creator of Drawabox has this to say on the subject of critiques:

'Once you've completed a lesson, one of the best ways to refine your understanding of that material is to help others by critiquing their work. After having done thousands of critiques and having improved immensely over the last few years, I can attest to that myself.'

In addition, if you critique lesson one submissions, your submissions for later lessons will get critique faster as the people qualified to do those will not be busy doing lesson 1 critiques (and doing lesson 1 critiques is pretty important since after just a few days the queue will fill up a lot - lesson 1 submissions are really common).

If you don't feel confident in giving a good critique, then I recommend looking at this guide for a start: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

Of course you don't have to, but it would be very helpful. Good luck on the box challenge!

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
9:30 AM, Sunday May 24th 2020

Thanks man. I get myself confused then it all seems to go to pot. So pleased when it seems I get one right but there is a ton of wrong along the way.

Anyway, thants for your really helpful comments.

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