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10:44 PM, Sunday January 24th 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 pretty good but you are still getting a tad bit of wobble in some of your lines. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get mostly confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses for the most part although I see a few where you did not. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/11/drawingthrough This is just a reminder that you need to be drawing through EVERY single ellipse you draw for all of these lessons without exception. You are doing well with focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes although you are getting a few slight deformations here and there. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are looking fine. I'm not seeing any real issues here. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 Your ellipses are off to a nice start and I'm not seeing any really bad habits forming. There's still plenty of room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing these during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. Once again this is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. You are 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.

Your rotated box exercise turned out decently. One thing that you could have with this exercise would have been to just draw this bigger as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent for the most part. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking great. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great although you are redrawing lines on occasion which is a habit you should try and break. Your box constructions are pretty solid for the most part but there are a few wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
6:05 PM, Monday January 25th 2021

Hi Rob,

Thank you for your critique! I have not had a chance to read through it in-depth yet, but I will do so soon.

Best,

Jason

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