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2:22 AM, Sunday August 16th 2020

Lines

Lines are pretty confident and accurate in general, great job! Only thing I can catch is that I can see a bit of wobble in some of your lines. Don't forget that a confident and a straight line will always be preferable to a wobbly line, so don't forget to prioritize confidence over accuracy.

And another thing is that you aren't plotting all of your lines in your ghosted planes. Don't forget to always draw a starting and ending dot before drawing any line, as it's important for applying the ghosting method correctly.

Ellipses

Pretty good overall as well, just keep in mind that here as well you should prioritize confidence over accuracy. Your ellipses do have a bit of wobble, specially on the ghosted planes, so don't forget to prioritize confidence over acccuracy on them.

On the table of ellipses you got some ellipses overlapping; don't forget that they should only touch, no more.

Boxes

Boxes are pretty clean and good overall too, just a tiny bit of wobble overall, and a few things:

-On rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.

-And on organic perspective, don't forget to draw even the smaller lines by ghosting with your shoulder, don't switch to your wrist or elbow, no matter how small the lines are, and try to make more overlaps on the boxes overall as well.

And about the overlaps, you can add a superimposed line to the part of the line that overlaps to clarify which box is in top of which. When you do it, don't forget to do it with a confident ghosted line with your shoulder.

Perspective on them has issues, but it gets pretty close in lots of cases, good job! One thing you can do in this exercise to improvve the depth is to try to make the closest boxes to the viewer with more extreme perspective, and the ones that are farther away with shallower perspective.

Overall like I said great job! Just keep in mind the confident lines thingy for the box challenge, as it'll make you get better practice. Good luck on the box challenge, and keep it up!

Next Steps:

First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.

As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.

-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more throughout the course.

-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. The new system ordering submissions also makes that the more agrees your critiques have the higher you'll be placed in the queue of critiques, which will improve your chances of getting critiques faster as well.

It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.

Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!

NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.

There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to, so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.

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2:15 AM, Monday August 17th 2020

Thanks for the detailed feedback! There's always something to learn. I'll be sure to ask questions here or on discord if something comes up whichever one is better.

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