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1:28 PM, Friday September 11th 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be looking at your submission today. So starting with your superimposed lines these look pretty good. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of tapering happening at the opposite end. The ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are doing a good job with the ghosting method and are getting very smooth confident linework. Your accuracy isn't quite there yet but that is something that will get better with practice. Nice job.

The table of ellipses exercise is coming along decently. You are doing a great job drawing through all of your ellipses and I like that you are really focusing on getting a smooth ellipse shape over absolute accuracy. This is carried over well into your ellipses in planes. Once again while your accuracy isn't quite there yet you are doing a good job focusing on trying to get a smooth ellipse shape first which is key. Once you can consistently nail those smooth ellipse shapes you can start focusing more and more on accuracy. The ellipses in funnels are having some issues with your ellipses not aligning to the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you will always want to consider when drawing ellipses is if they are correctly aligned to the minor axis. Overall though I think your ellipses are on the right track and I don't see any bad habits or problems with them in general. There's still plenty of room for improvement though so keep practicing these during your warmups.

The Plotted perspective exercise feels heavily rushed. I think you could have drawn these quite a bit bigger on the pages and filled them in with more boxes like the example homework. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/example Part of learning to draw and working through these lessons is being able to follow instructions correctly. So I'm going to have you redo this page and try and put a little more effort into and not just do two boxes per exercise. The rough perspective boxes feels a bit sloppy as well. I think you are really skipping using the ghosting method at times here and your linework feels very sloppy and rushed in places and you are also starting to redraw lines quite a bit which is something you want to avoid. Always use the ghosting method and ghost your lines multiple times and then draw them from the shoulder with confidence and put your mark down in one stroke. You did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes here to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that is something that will get better with practice.

The rotated box exercise turned out pretty decently. Your line quality has taken a bit of a dive because you are likely skipping the ghosting method or drawing from your wrist. So as I said above always ghost your lines and then draw from the shoulder with confidence even on short lines like these. You did a good job though of drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. One issue you are running into though is that you aren't actually rotating your boxes but are simply drawing them moving back in perspective. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Finally, your organic boxes could definitely use some work. Some of your linework here is pretty good and clearly done with the ghosting method while on shorter lines I see you reverting back to your wrist and your lines getting much worse. One of the habits you really need to work on is always consistently using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder. It will really benefit you overall. Your box constructions need a lot of work and you will be getting a lot of practice with that during the 250 box challenge.

Overall this was a pretty good submission. You showed a decent amount of growth here but I think you need to be a bit better about using the ghosting method more consistently and drawing from your shoulder more. I'm going to have you redo the Plotted Perspective homework and try and not just rush through it. Layout the 3 exercise boxes on your page like the example homework and take your time with it and do more than just two boxes per square. After you get that submitted I'll mark this as complete and you can move on to the 250 box challenge.

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5:06 PM, Friday September 11th 2020

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your critique - it was very helpful. You are correct on several counts - I'm definitely rushing at times and not ghosting. Thanks for pointing that out.

I have just finished the 250 boxes challenge (unfortunately, before becoming a proper Patron) so I'm sure some of the feedback you've just given will be relevant in my next submission.

I have also attached a redo of 1 page of plotted perspective.

https://imgur.com/a/Wwvmp9e

Thanks for your time,

Tyler

3:48 AM, Saturday September 12th 2020

Lol, welp this is probably the biggest improvement I've ever seen on a redo. I'm going to mark this as complete. I see that you already finished the box challenge so good luck with lesson 2 whenever you get around to it!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
11:54 AM, Saturday September 12th 2020

lol... yeah. That's the benefit of feedback I guess - I was working in a vaccuum thinking "this is probably fine" — so it's good that you pointed out a few things that I was probably hiding from acknowledging. Onwards!!

Thanks again!

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