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6:32 PM, Sunday July 25th 2021

Howdy! Awesome job with your first completed lesson - I think a lot of your work looks really solid! I'm going to note things by exercise below. Since I'm very new to drawing and I also just completed Lesson 1, I will mostly be crossreferencing the exercise instructions and noting things that Uncomfortable calls out. That being said, I will bold things that you might want to keep in mind in the future.

  • Superimposed lines:

    • I feel like you did a good job keeping the lines close together in this exercise and minimizing fraying! Nice job!

    • There is some wobbling across your lines, but that's expected right now!

    • All in all, you did a good job avoiding fraying on both ends. There's one line that has fraying on the starting end on your second page (I think it's the first one), but I don't think it's that big of deal. Nice!

  • Ghosted Lines:

    • I would say for the most part, it looks like you're able to execute Level 1 lines pretty consistently, meaning you're able to create smooth, wobble free lines, but you're not quite matching the trajectory of the point you're targeting. That being said, I feel like there are a handful of Level 2 (smooth, wobble free, correct trajectory but too long/short) and Level 3 (smooth, wobble free, and hit the other point) lines here

    • With the exception of one line near the top left of the page, you did a good job avoiding arching. Nice!

  • Ghosted Planes:

    • While you do a great job of fully connecting your planes, there is quite a bit of wobble in your line execution, and in some cases a bit of line arching. When attempting this exercise in the future as a warmup, you may want to proritize smooth, fluid lines hitting your points - Uncomfortable notes that it's normally easier to improve accuracy with fluid lines as opposed to improving smoothness with wobbly but accurate lines (see the Ghosted Lines exercise for this callout)

    • That being said, your lines within the planes are much smoother - nice job!

  • Tables of Ellipses:

    • All in all, I'd say this came out very well.

      • For the most part, you are consistently drawing ellipses that have similar degrees and angles within each table, and you consistently are able to keep them aligned to the edges of the table and other ellipses.

      • Also, you appear to do a good job of drawing through your ellipses.

  • Ellipses in Planes:

    • Most of the ellipses here seem good. The bottom half of the first page does have some fairly wobbly ellipses, but I feel like for a first attempt overall (at least I'm assuming this is your first attempt), this is pretty good. Just remember that your first focus should be maintaing a smooth ellipse over accurately fitting it within the plane: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/purpose
  • Funnels:

    • I think you did a good job with this one! You're pretty consistent at keeping the minor axis aligned with the long line you drew, and you were able to keep the ellipses close together and within the arcs.
  • Plotted Perspective:

    • Not much to say here - it looks like you followed the instructions correctly!
  • Rough Perspective:

    • All in all I would say you did a good job following the instructions here, as you estimated to a 1 point perspective pretty consistently. The biggest callout I have would be to try to keep the lines that aren't going to the vanishing point horizontal/vertical. Most of the time you appear to be doing this, but sometimes there are some diagonal lines that should be vertical. This in general is a tough exercise to do, so recognize that a lot of this will come with practice.
  • Rotated Boxes:

    • In some cases it seems like the gaps between the boxes are a bit large and not as tight as they should be, which would help make it a bit easier to estimate where lines should be. This is a really tough exercise though so props to you for getting through it!
  • Organic perspective:

    • Your boxes are looking really solid here! Good work! I don't really have any critique here.

Next Steps:

Congrats on getting through lesson 1! Since you followed all the instructions correctly, I would say you are good to move on to the 250 box challenge! Just keep in mind the bolded comments I've left above!

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10:50 AM, Monday July 26th 2021

Hi Disko,

Thanks for the advice! I definitely felt like the rough perspective boxes were hard to plot out and I definitely should of payed more attention to keeping those lines horizontal/verical.

Thank you!

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