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9:33 PM, Sunday January 3rd 2021

Hi and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes are coming along quite well. You are using the ghosting method to great effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice. Nice job.

Your tables of ellipses are looking pretty good. You are doing a good job at drawing through almost all of your ellipses. I can see a few here that weren't so I just want to remind you that you need to be drawing through every single ellipse you draw for these lessons without exception. Even if you think you got it right the first time. You are doing well with focusing on getting a consistent smooth ellipse shape. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. You are slightly deforming some of your ellipses on occasion and it's likely happening because you are a little too concerned with accuracy. Try and rely a little bit more on the muscle memory you build up ghosting. I'm seeing the same issue a little bit with your ellipses in funnels. Another thing you could have tried with the funnel exercise is to widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 Your ellipses are looking pretty good for most part but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing these during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. The rough perspective boxes turned out very well. You are doing a really nice job keeping up with the confident linework here. You also did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Nice job on these.

Your rotated box exercise was a decent attempt. I like that you drew this nice and big as that tends to help when dealing with compelx spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps fairly consistent. You're obviously still struggling with the spatial thinking required for some of the rotations here which is perfectly fine given the difficulty of this exercise and the most important part is that you gave it your best shot. This is a great exercise to come back to in a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercise is a bit of a mixed bag. Some of your linework here looks extremely confident which is great. I am seeing a bit of wobble on some lines which is likely happening because you are slowing down your stroke for the sake of accuracy. Your box constructions on the other hand definitely need some improvement so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a pretty good submission and your linework was looking quite confident by that last exercise. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey very well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
12:06 AM, Wednesday January 6th 2021

Thank you for taking the time to look through my work. i really appreciate it.

i definitely look forward to attempting the rotated box in the future. that totally broke my brain.

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