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1:55 AM, Monday August 31st 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission. The superimposed lines are coming along well and you are doing a good job keeping a clearly defined starting point on these. Moving onto your ghosted lines and planes these turned out quite good as well. You are doing a great job with the ghosting method and are getting some very smooth and confident linework and while your accuracy isn't quite there yet that will get better with practice.

Great job drawing through all of your ellispes on your table of ellispes and you are really starting to nail smooth consistent ellipse shapes. This same level of confidence is carried over into your ellipses and planes and you are really doing a nice job focusing on that smooth ellipse shape instead of slowing down your stroke to try and accurately cram the ellipse in the plane. The ellipses in funnels are looking good. One aspect you could have pushed a bit more was widening the degrees of the ellipses a bit more as they moved outwards in the funnels as shown in the example. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 Your ellipses turned out very well for the most part and are really on the right track.

Plotted perspective looks fine although I do want to mention your hatching. When adding hatch marks you really should try and treat it like every other line you draw and ghost it and then draw with confidence. You also want the line to be touching both ends of the plane instead of having them floating in the middle as this looks a bit rushed. The rough perspective exercise turned out very well. You are doing a great job with the ghosting method here and your linework is looking very smooth and confident. You also did a great job extending the lines back on your boxes here to check your work.

So your rotated box exercise has one really major problem that is holding you back and that is that you simply drew this way too small. Drawing something like this bigger really would have helped you think through the spatial problems you were facing here much more easily. You are also running into a pretty common problem of not quite rotating your boxes enough and in some cases are just drawing them moving back into perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is most noticeable in the boxes going off to the right. Your organic perspective exercise turned out pretty well although there is one issue here that I need to bring up. You were supposed to lay these out the same way as the rough perspective box exercise with 3 exercises per page. So I'm going to have you do one more page of these with that correct layout. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/example Other than that you did a good job with the ghosting method although you are having a tendency to redraw incorrect lines which is something you want to break the habit of. You are better off trying to work with the initial line you put down rather than just adding more lines which makes the image more confusing. Your box constructions are looking pretty good for the most part.

This was a really good submission overall. You are doing a great job understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey and showed a good amount of growth working through these exercises. I'm going to need you to submit one more page of the organic perspective exercise in the correct format and then I'll mark this as complete and you can move onto the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

One more page of the organic perspective exercise with the correct layout. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/example

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:57 PM, Monday August 31st 2020

Hey,

thank you for the feedback. Here is the link to the due page: https://imgur.com/YwzGDku

I wasn't quite able to do all the lines with only one stroke. But I will definitely work on that.

6:09 AM, Tuesday September 1st 2020

Looks great. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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