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9:11 AM, Sunday June 26th 2022

Hi,

First of all thank you for taking time to critique my work. I've tried to analyze my work too and I think my problem isn't with understanding the concepts (I can draw a box with a ruller using vanishing points just fine) but with as I like to call it double E: estimating and execution which in my case is nowhere near perfect. And I really hope this will come with practice and become muscle memory at some point.

Anyway I tried my best to rectify my mistakes from 250 box challenge in these additional 50 boxes drill. As requested I added thickness and hatching although I don't care about bonus points ;) I'm here to learn not gain points ;) (Although I understand it's just a figure of speech)

You can find my work at the imgur link below and I would really appreciate if you could review and critique that. Thanks again!

https://imgur.com/a/ig4gpBM

Cheers

9:56 PM, Wednesday July 20th 2022

Hello again!

Super sorry it took me so long to respond, I got logged out of my account and didn't notice so I did not get the notification. My bad. Anyway....

Great job! Seriously! The biggest issue with your boxes before was that the back lines would veer off drastically. Immediately, on your first few pages of boxes, the relationships between the lines improve greatly, and are wayyyy more accurate. It goes from an issue that was in almost every box to something that only appears occasionally.

You might be frustrated that it is still not perfect, but I can see that you are starting to really understand it. If you would like, you can always practice a few boxes as a warm up before other exercises. Eventually you will get the lines to almost always be spot-on.

On top of that, your hatching and line thickness is super clean. You can claim your bonus points here if you decide you want them after all ;)

Next Steps:

Great job and move on to lesson 2 if you have not done so already!

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4:28 PM, Friday July 22nd 2022

Thank you so much and no worries, happened to me also. There's not so much distinction between being logged in and not. Also since this is not official critique it wasn't blocking me at all, I simply moved on to the next lesson, so no harm done :)

Thanks again for all the pointers and taking your time to do the critique

Cheers!

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