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3:04 AM, Thursday September 17th 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Your superimposed lines are off to a nice start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point on these and all of your tapering is on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out very well. You are doing a great job using the ghosting method to get some very smooth and confident linework. Your accuracy still isn't there yet but that will get better the more you practice using this method.

Your table of ellipses turned out pretty well for the most part. You are doing a great job drawing through your ellipses and you mostly did a good job with trying to go for a smooth ellipse shape. There are some issues with that here and there and it's a bit more noticeable in your ellipses in planes where you are deforming your ellipses a bit. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed This is likely happening because you are a bit too concerned with accuracy with this point and you are likely slowing down your stroke to compensate. Your number one priority right now is to be able to consistently draw a smooth ellipse shape. The accuracy will come with mileage. The ellipses in funnels are looking pretty good although I'm still seeing some issues with deformed ellipses. Overall I'd say you are mostly on the right track with your ellipses I would just be a little less concerned with accuracy for now and focus a bit more on trying to nail an overall smooth ellipse shape. So keep practicing these during your warmups.

Plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes are looking very good. You are doing a great job keeping up with the ghosting method and confident linework. You also did a good job at extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were a bit off but that will get better with practice. I do notice a few wobbly lines particulary on shorter lines here and there. This might be because you are reverting to drawing from your wrist on shorter lines so that is something you can keep in mind.

The rotated box exercise was a decent attempt. You kept up with the nice linework here and you did a good job drawing through all of your boxes. This kind of fell apart because you stopped keeping the gaps bewteen you boxes consistent and because you weren't rotating your boxes in some cases. Please check these lesson notes. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/guessing https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a good exercise to come back to after the 250 box challenge to see how much your spatial thinking has improved. Finally, your organic perspective exercise turned out decently. I really like that you kept up with the ghosting method and your linework was very solid through all of these exercises. Your box constructions on the other hand could definitely use some work and you will get a lot of practice with this during the 250 box challenge.

This was a good submission with really excellent improvements in line quality and accuracy. I think you are doing a good job understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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4:24 AM, Thursday September 17th 2020

I like how your lines are nice and confident. The only place that i can see some difficulty is the rotated boxes exercise and organic perspective. But no problem since they were meant to be hard. In the rotated boxes exercise i would advice you to draw the boxes close together. It helped me very much with the rotation even though i messed the back planes alittle.

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