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12:31 AM, Monday February 1st 2021

Hello 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 wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses is coming along okay. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and I'm seeing noticeable improvement in terms of your ellipse shapes from the first to second page. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes although you are deforming your ellipses at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed This is likely happening because you are too worried about accuracy and are probably slowing down your stroke to compensate. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory of the motion you build up while ghosting and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come through mileage and consistent practice more than anything. Your ellipses in funnels are having the same deformity issues but the bigger problem here is that you only did one exercise on the page. Please try and follow the homework assignments a bit more carefully. Your final page should look something like this. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/example I'm going to have you redo this page as I think you could use the practice with ellipses anyways. Focus on trying to get smoother overall ellipse and don't concern yourself with accuracy too much at this point.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspectives turned out really well. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these although I can't be sure but it seems to me like you are using a ruler to construct your boxes for this exercise and the organic perspective exercise which is against the rules. Either that or you got way better at drawing lines pretty quickly compared to your ghosted lines exercise in which case great. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice.

You clearly struggled with the rotated box exercise and pretty much gave up on even trying to do the corners. Some of the exercises you do during these lessons are going to be beyond your current ability but you need to at least try to do them. So I'm going to have you redo this exercise as well. It's great that you drew through the boxes you did draw and you kept your gaps narrow and consistent. However, you are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes here but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a tough exercise and a lot of people attempt it when they don't have the necessary spatial thinking required to complete it. Just give it your best shot. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are solid for the most part but there are some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a pretty good submission besides the unfinished exercises. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. Like I mentioned earlier I am a bit concerned that you might have used a ruler to construct your boxes for the rough perspective box exercise and organic perspective exercise. I can't be sure but if you did you should really attempt these exercises again freehand. Otherwise, I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well Get those revisions submitted and I'll take a look and then you can move on to the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

Ellipses in Funnels - Make sure you do multiple exercises on one page

Rotated Box Exercise - try and do the whole thing even if it turns out poorly

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:37 PM, Wednesday February 3rd 2021

I will reply with the works required but I have one question concerning the 250 box challenge - is it also freehand? I think I couldn't find it anywhere, and yes, sometimes I am unsure as to whether to do it freehand or with ruler..

3:23 PM, Wednesday February 3rd 2021

You can use a ruler to set up the page layouts for the exercises and to draw in things like the horizon line but the rest of your drawing should be done freehand. The only boxes you were supposed to draw with a ruler during lesson one was the plotted perspective homework. Everything else is supposed to be freehand.

1:50 PM, Friday February 5th 2021

https://imgur.com/a/oI54W8V

Here is the link for the exercises you required me to do again; may I move on to the 250 boxes challenge now?

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1:47 PM, Friday February 5th 2021

Thank you, I did the exercises again you asked me for; I hope it is ok; the boxes took me long; https://imgur.com/a/oI54W8V

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