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7:52 AM, Sunday November 1st 2020

Hi SAFIRIAN. Good job on finishing Lesson 1.

Lines

Your lines are pretty confident in general. In the Superimposed Lines, don't forget to place your pen carefully at the beginning of the line to avoid fraying on both ends. Your Ghosted Lines and Planes look very confident and smooth. There is a bit of wobbling, but not too much. Very nice in general.

Ellipses

Your ellipses look good as well. It is good that you drew through your ellipses. As you keep practicing them in your warm-ups, your ellipses will get better and tighten up. I liked how your ellipses are inside the boundaries, sitting snuggly in their allotted spaces.

In your Funnels, some of the ellipses are not aligned with the minor axis well. Don't forget the minor axis cuts each ellipse into two equal, symmetrical halves. When you do the funnels in your warm-ups, you can try to change the degree of your ellipses and make the ones on the center narrower, as explained in here. Other than that, it looks good. Keep drawing your ellipses with confidence, and they will get better.

Boxes

In Rough Perspective, your lines are confident and clean. Even though I see a bit of wobbling or arching in some of your lines, they are good in general. It seems like you paid enough attention to the vertical and horizontal lines as all the vertical ones are perpendicular to the horizon, and all the horizontal ones are parallel to the horizon. When you drew through your boxes, some of the inner horizontal lines weren't parallel to the horizon, so I would suggest you be careful when you draw them. The lines that should go to the vanishing point are a bit off. Don't forget to use the ghosting method here as well, and plan your lines carefully before drawing it. This way, your lines that go to the vanishing point will be more accurate.

The Rotated Boxes looks pretty good. The rotation is well done. The gaps between the boxes are consistent and small, and you did a good job drawing through your boxes. Maybe you can try to rotate the boxes on the upper left and right corner more.

Your Organic Perspective looks good in general. But I realized you repeated some of your lines and tried to fix them. It is better not to do that since it will make your drawing messier and attract more attention to the mistake. Even if your line looks wrong, don't fix it. Also, the boxes in this part look less planned than the ones in the Rough Perspective. Try taking your time and putting little points where you want your line to start and end, just like you did in the Rough Perspective. This way, your boxes will appear solid and 3D.

I liked your homework in general. It was confident and the concepts introduced in the lessons are applied well. Keep doing them as warm-ups. While doing the 250 Box Challenge, take your time, and don't forget to draw for fun as the challenge might get tedious.

Next Steps:

I am glad to mark this as complete. You can go ahead and start the 25O Box Challenge. Good Luck :)

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8:50 AM, Sunday November 1st 2020

Thanks fot the critique! I really apprieciate it!

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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.

In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.

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