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10:28 PM, Monday November 9th 2020

This is a good improvement. Your lines are more confident looking and you are now drawing them at a good size.

You do appear to have missed part of my instructions however. I specifically told you to apply extra line weight to all of the boxes in your revisions. There are areas where I can see you made extra passes over your marks. But these marks are being used to correct mistakes, which is also something I have instructed you not to do.

Taking your time and following instructions is an important and necessary skill which the 250 Box Challenge is meant to help you develop. It is also important that if you find you do not understand the instructions or are in need of clarification that you seek clarification either here, in the community or in the instructions themselves.

Before sending you to lesson 2 I will ask for one last page of boxes from you. On this page you will have the following:

  • 6 boxes drawn at a decent size (boxes 11-14 are a good example from your revisions)

  • Each box will have a single pass of line weight applied, instructions for how to apply that line weight are here.

  • DO NOT use any extra marks to correct your lines. If the line is wrong we leave it and move on. Confidence in your stroke should be your top priority. As I said before accuracy is something you will develop over time and is not your focus for this exercise.

Keep in mind as you progress through Drawabox and begin to construct more complex forms that it is important to put in the time and focus required to execute each line correctly and to apply the ghosting method to every step of the process, as explained here.

Next Steps:

One page of boxes as described above.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:48 AM, Tuesday November 10th 2020

Alright I think I got it this time, let me know if I i missed anything else.

https://imgur.com/a/HFWhdwt

12:58 AM, Wednesday November 11th 2020

These boxes look good!

You are still showing a bit of hesitation when adding extra line weight, try to keep in mind what I have said about applying line weight with the ghosting method. This is something that you can work through in your warm ups and with consistent practice though and I believe you are ready to move onto lesson 2.

Good luck!

Next Steps:

Continue to lesson 2!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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