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12:15 PM, Friday June 19th 2020

You're welcome. As you can see from the above conversation as a community effort reviews and judgements can vary according to an individual's perception.

I think the improvements in quality and accuracy of lines are clear in your resubmissions. It really does pay dividends to get the muscle control and accuracy baked in early IMO.

With the rotated boxes exercise read the instructions carefully and draw fairly big. A key note is remembering that edges that are next to each other on adjacent boxes will be very similar and this knowledge can help you maintain the correct perspectives.

8:42 PM, Friday June 19th 2020

HI. I know you already had "your differences" with another user, but I can't help to notice one thing.

I see that this submission has two agrees on your critique but it's not marked as complete.

I don't wanna be that guy, but by chance, did it gave you the option to ask for additional homework or mark as complete in this last reply? Because, by experience, it did to me when I asked for additional work. If it did and you didn't put it, would you be so kind to try and mark the lesson as complete? I'm sure we can find a way to give this person their badge.

I can't speak for the entire community, but I'm sure we're all grateful for your efforts and your good intentions. I hope this little pointer wasn't annoying. Your help matters and I hope this didn't discourage you from future reviews :)

9:42 PM, Friday June 19th 2020

FWIW. The original poster understands the critique and has been quite grateful and is re-submitting rotated boxes which was part of the additional requests in it. Hence it has not been marked as completed. If the submitter understands this I don't get what the problem is.

The parts that were re-submitted were much improved and hence I would consider them passed. Giving away badges without fixing clear issues seems to be at odd with the "tough approach".

I'm not sure what the "agrees" mean other than they agree with my critique that more work is needed. If it means something else then that is very misleading.

This effort does seem to have become too burdensome for me. I think I will pull back and focus on my own struggles with Drawabox.

9:58 PM, Friday June 19th 2020

I'm sorry you think it this way. I have just seen the lesson not marked as complete and I wanted to make sure that you weren't missing the "complete" button.

In no way, shape or form I was saying that you were too harsh or your opinion wasn't worth.

Also, I have to confess that I didn't check the imgur link. Therefore, I have to douse my head in ash and admit I was mistaken. I'm sure it happens to the best of us. I hope that you can forgive me for wanting to make sure this submission wasn't getting lost in the queue. I was only trying to help, both you and the submitter. I agree, badges shouldn't be thrown out.

I didn't understand myself that the user needed to still do the rotated boxes.

I have made quite a fool out of myself, and again, I apologize.

You got the right idea on the agrees, that is exactly what they mean. I agreed with your opinion as well.

I hope that you won't let a foolish misjudgement like mine deter you any longer. Critiques help the entire community, yourself included.

TL,DR: Sorry, I'm a dumb nosy fool. I'll leave you be

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9:09 PM, Saturday June 20th 2020

https://imgur.com/a/nrYppHT

Thank you for the continued feedback, SCOOBYCLUB.

I completed the rotated box exercise and linked it above. I felt this second time through wasn't as rough as the first time. And the daily warm ups using the lessons I've learned so far gave me a little bit more confidence when drawing these lines.

Thank you again for the advice and feedback so far.

9:24 PM, Saturday June 20th 2020
edited at 9:33 PM, Jun 20th 2020

Well done. Much easier to see what is going on. Just remember to keep to single, confident lines and avoid sketchy ones.

Make sure you read all the instructions and watch the videos. Particularly not that it is recommended 4-6 boxes per page to allow for many variations in size, perspective and foreshortening.

Next Steps:

Time to move on to 250 Box Challenge. Enjoy :-).

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 3 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
edited at 9:33 PM, Jun 20th 2020
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