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4:49 AM, Wednesday December 23rd 2020

Hi, Rubydune! Congrats on completing the challenge, I'll be reviewing your submission.

Line quality -

Throughout the challenge, crisp & confident lines. Your lineweight is also good, nice to see that it's pretty subtle. Hatching is also fairly neat. Overall, great job on your linework!

Box construction -

Convergences have improved quite a bit. In the beginning your lines were mainly parallel to each other, but now I see that you've managed to fix that. I recommend for you to experiment with boxes that have shallow and dramatic foreshortening, to further develop your spatial perspective. Here is a resource to further develop your skills. (https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png) This image mainly focuses on the relationships between all the angles, and how you should utilize them in constructing your boxes.

Overall, you made good improvements. You've grasped the concept of convergence well, at the beginning you were mainly creating parallel lines. After you've recovered from this box overload you should continue to make boxes in your warmup! I'll mark this as complete, and if you haven't already, feel free to start lesson 2.

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Lesson 2!

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3:46 PM, Saturday December 26th 2020

Thank you so much for your critique Brianna. It is extremely useful and appreciated. I will definitely take your advice and practice different degrees of foreshortening, from shallow to dramatic, when practicing boxes during warmup routines.

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