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7:34 PM, Wednesday September 2nd 2020

First off, congrats on making 250 boxes! You can be proud for the rest of your life. The boxes look correct, but few things stand out to me:

  1. Allow yourself to make mistakes! Sometimes when your line misses, you do another one. Please don't do that in next lessons, confident skill is made upon foundation of confident faliure. I see that your lines really improved with the amount of boxes you made, but still you should prioritize confidence over accuracy.

  2. Most of your boxes have very dramatic perspective (perspective points are not far away, that they extend way over the paper you draw on). It is not mistake, dramatic perspecitve helps with doing good forshadowing, but remember that most of the boxes you make will be not as dramatic (the points will go far and beyond, compared to being pretty much next to the box).

Overall amazing job, I like the hatching you made, just remember what I talked about above and you can go to lesson 2. :)

Next Steps:

Congratulations on finishing lesson the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2

As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge submissions.

-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.

-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high and if you do some critiques, those would be less submissions I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. Uncomfortable also implemented a system that makes your submissions appear higher in the queue if you do critiques, so that would improve your chances even more.

It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.

Good luck on lesson 2, and keep up the good work!

NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.

and here's another on critiquing box challenge submissions.

There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to, so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.

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.
4:45 AM, Monday September 7th 2020

Thanks for your comments.

To your point about line confidence I realise this is an issue for me. I have to keep fighting the urge to try & redo my lines. Sometimes I win. Sometimes not.

To start with I was plotting the boxes myself but as I went along I started following the axis generator app. So some a generated by me & some are generated by the app.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment.

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