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10:21 PM, Saturday June 13th 2020

Hello and thanks for your time to critique and give me some feedback. It is greatly appreciated. I have obtained pens in the correct size finally so that has been very helpful.

Neither of the links you shared with me worked but I was able to find the spot in the video and I kind of was able to guess the part in the text that you were referencing for me to review, and from there I tried to draw some more boxes. Here are 2 more pages

I drew the boxes bigger and I tried to be mindful of the things you mentioned as I drew them this time, paying much more attention to vanishing points and which directions my lines would extend.

I focused on the initial Y shape creating the planes that are facing the viewer, but I guess one doubt that I have, or something that I am not quite clear on, is if I have been picking the correct face of each box to be shaded.

Thanks again for your reply and your patience for recieving a response from me. I was thrown off a bit by my sleep and work schedule getting rearranged, but now I'm back and ready to keep drawing. Hope to hear from you soon :)

9:39 PM, Sunday June 14th 2020

Hello, again, Molly.

I'm glad you took the time to draw two more pages as requested. Regarding the links I shared, I noticed they had some typos, which prevented them from working. They are fixed now.

Now, on your new boxes you managed to draw all the extended lines in the right direction, although you forgot to draw a set of them on the bottom right box of your first page. This one specifically would be a good example of the importance of extending the lines correctly, because if you extend the lines you're missing, you'll notice that some of them will never meet, since they are moving apart from each other. This should never happen. If the perspective is correct, the extended lines should move closer to one another and meet at the same point. The same happens on the box in the center of the second page. The green lines will never meet.

Now, it's nearly impossible to get every box with a perfect perspective, where all lines meet in a single point, but our goal is to make sure that the lines meet in points that are close to each other. This segment of the video explains it better.

Regarding the side that's facing the viewer, here you have picked all the sides correctly, as you did on most of the 250 first boxes. An example of a box you shaded the wrong side would be box nº. 45.

Overall, these last boxes are much better than the previous ones and it shows you corrected your previous mistakes.

Don't forget to keep practicing some boxes during warm ups, as this will help you keep improving. Good luck for lesson 2.

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