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3:44 AM, Wednesday January 6th 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 on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out quite well. You are using the ghosting method to great effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice. Nice work.

Your tables of ellipses is coming along quite good. You are doing a good job drawing through all of your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's good that you aren't too concerned with accuracy at this point. Although accuracy is our end goal that tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else and can't really be forced. Your ellipses in funnels are having some slight issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing an ellipse. Your ellipses are off to a great start and I'm not seeing any bad habits forming here but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing these.

The plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes turned out very well. You are doing a good job keeping up with the confident linework here. You also did well with extending all of the lines back on your boxes correctly to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were a bit off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Nice job.

Your rotated box exercise turned out decently. You are doing a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not quite rotating your boxes in some cases but instead moving them back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating It's most noticeable on the left side where you sort of tried to correct it. This is a great exercise to come back to in a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercise does feel a tad rushed but turned out pretty decently all the same. Your line confidence here is still very good for the most part even though you are redrawing lines on occasion. Your box constructions are pretty decent for the most part but there are definitely some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a really well done submission that showed great growth in line confidence and ellipses. I think you are understanding most of the concepts in these lessons very well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

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The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
4:38 AM, Wednesday January 6th 2021

Thank you very much! I definitely agree with what you pointed out, as it was frustrating to logically know that I made exactly the mistake I was trying to avoid. I'm excited to return to these after I do the 250 box challenge and see how much I've inproved!

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