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5:53 PM, Saturday April 17th 2021

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. These are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspectives turned out okay. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. The real issue here is that you didn't extend the lines back on your boxes to check your work. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/step6 Following all the directions is a large part of working through this course and in future lessons it will always lead to redos. So I'd like you to take these rough perspective pages and extend your depth lines back to check your work and reupload them.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I think one thing that would have helped you here would have to just draw this a bit bigger. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases(mainly noticeable at the top) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. The real issue I have here is that you didn't lay out these pages correctly with three exercises per page like the sample homework. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/example So since there were supposed to be six exercises done in total I'd like you to do one more page of these. Your box constructions are solid for the most part and you seem well prepared for the 250 box challenge.

Overall this was a pretty solid submission outside of the missed instructions on a few of these homework pages. Once you get those revisions submitted I'll mark this as complete and you can move on to the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/step6 Extend the depth lines on your rough perspective boxes to check your work.

One more page of the organic perspective boxes with the correct layout of three exercises per page.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
9:34 AM, Sunday April 18th 2021

https://imgur.com/gallery/wl7Zfnq

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!

Amendments attached above.

6:48 PM, Sunday April 18th 2021

Okay, these look fine. Extending the lines back on your boxes really shows you how off you were in your initial estimations as you can see.

I'm going to mark these as complete and you can move on to the 250 box challenge!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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