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6:51 PM, Thursday October 1st 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission. Your superimposed lines are off to good start. You are doing a good job keeping a clearly defined starting point with your tapering happening on the opposite end. You are struggling a bit with this on some of the curves. The most in control you are of the drawing process is where you start a line so try and keep it as neat as possible. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out very well. You're using the ghosting to great effect to achieve confident linework with a pretty high degree of accuracy. Nice work.

Your table of ellipses are looking pretty decent. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses for the most part. I am noticing some places where you didn't really draw through your ellipse or only did it like 1-1/2 times. I'm seeing this quite a bit in your ellipses in funnels as well. You are supposed to draw through every single ellipse you draw for these lessons 2 - 3 times. I like that you are shooting more for a smooth ellipse shape in your ellipses in planes. However, your second priority should be to get the ellipse to touch all four sides of the plane and should be your next goal with this exercise. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/floating With your ellipses in funnel you also could be starting with a narrower ellipse in the center and then widening the degree of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel like in this example. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 Your ellipses are off to nice start but there's plenty of room for improvement here especially in regards to accuracy so keep practicing these during your warmups.

Plotted perspective looks good nothing to mention here. Your rough perpsective exercises turned out quite well. You are keeping up with the ghosting method and your linework is still looking quite smooth and confident which is great to see. 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 the more you practice.

Your rotated box exercise was a nice attempt. You did a good job drawing through all of your boxes. While it's really helpful to get the gaps between your boxes narrow and consistent I think you were probably almost a bit too narrow on these. You were struggling quite a bit with the box rotations here and in some cases you weren't really rotating the boxes at all like on the bottom of the sphere which is a pretty common problem students have with this exercise. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a tough exercise and a good one to come back to after the 250 box challenge to see how much your spatial thinking has improved. Finally, your organic perspective exercise is looking quite nice. Your linework is looking very confident throughout. Your box constructions are pretty decent for the most part although I think you are relying pretty heavily on parallel lines and I do see a few boxes with diverging lines. You will be getting a lot of practice with these during the 250 box challenge.

This was a really good submission overall and your line quality improved quite a bit. I think you did a great job understanding most of the concepts these lessons were trying to convey. There's still plenty of room for improvement with your ellipses so keep up with practicing them during your warmups. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
3:46 PM, Monday October 5th 2020

Hi Rob, thanks so much for your review! It's very helpful to know where are the areas of improvement I should focus on next and hopefully the 250 box challenge will solidify the rest (which I understand was not that bad)

The one I had the most trouble was the rotated box indeed so I might do another attempt in a warmup in the near future, along with more ellipses in general.

Thanks again and have a good day

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