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4:27 PM, Sunday April 3rd 2022

As Uncomfortable mentioned (and as discussed in lesson 0 as well as briefly hinted at in my critique) we don't want you to be working ahead or submitting old work because each bit of course material builds off the previous section. Meaning if you have issues in previous work it will likely be present in your current work, this means you'll be needlessly repeating exercises which can lead to burn out, and means that the person critiquing your work needs to address issues that should no longer be present. It's basically a poor use of everyone involved's time.

As for the boxes you've provided here there are still issues in a number of them.

Boxes: 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14, 17, 22, and 24

All suffer from lines being extended in the wrong direction still.

I'll be asking you to re-read through your critique where I provided you guides and visual demonstrations of how to correctly place your vanishing points and extend your lines and draw 10 more boxes please.

Next Steps:

10 more boxes please.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:31 PM, Sunday April 3rd 2022

Gotcha.

So just so I understand this fully, if I am viewing a box from underneath, its Y axis vanishing point will always project towards the top? and vice versa?

6:40 PM, Monday April 4th 2022

That's correct. If you're under the box then that means in order for the lines to converge away from the viewer they'd have to go upwards.

11:44 PM, Wednesday April 6th 2022

Okay. I think these feel a lot better. I have a few where my lines are converging in pairs but overall I feel better about these. My cross hatching isn’t as neat as I would like. I’m having trouble controlling the length of each line with my my arm and tend to overshoot. I’ll be interested hear what you think. Thoughts?

https://imgur.com/a/Do9h0pG

12:20 AM, Thursday April 7th 2022

Lines converging in pairs is something to work on but it's expected, you'll continue to improve with mileage.

My main concern was with you possibly not understanding how vanishing points and convergences work, but in these revisions you've shown you have them grasped now.

Good work, I have no issues moving you on to lesson 2 now (which as Uncomfortable mentioned should be all new work from this point forward).

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups and good luck.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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