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12:20 AM, Monday December 21st 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are coming along fine. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are doing a good job using the ghosting method to get confident linework and while your accuracy still needs work that will just get better and better with practice.

Your table of ellipses are also looking quite good. You are doing a good job drawing through all of your ellipses and you seem to be well focused on trying to get consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. I'm glad that you aren't too focused on accuracy at this point but are instead focused on a smooth ellipse shape. Accuracy is our end goal but it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels look fine not seeing any issues here. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep up with your practice on these. It's great that I'm not seeing any bad habits developing here.

The plotted perspective exercise looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes turned out pretty good. I can see you are still getting used to the ghosting method and your accuracy is still an issue at times. Don't worry about it's better that you are focused on the confident linework you are ending up with. You did 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 this will become more intuitive with practice as well.

Your rotated box exercise was a decent attempt. I like that you drew this nice and big as that tends to help a lot when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps fairly consistent. You're not quite nailing all of your rotations which is perfectly fine given the difficulty of this exercise. This is a great exercise to come back after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Nice work though. Your organic perspective exercise is pretty good. You seem to be getting very comfortable with the ghosting method and are getting really nice and confident linework. Your box constructions are pretty good for the most part although I am noticing a few wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a nice amount of growth particularly with your line confidence and quality. I think you are understanding most of the concepts theses lessons are trying to convey 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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1:12 AM, Monday December 28th 2020

Thanks heaps! I'll get right onto the 250 box challenge!

1:18 AM, Monday December 28th 2020

Also for the 250 box challenge I'm currently doing it digitally because of not wanting to use 50 pages of paper. I know it's against the rules but I'm not cheating and trust me you can tell in some of these boxes.. Would it still be ok for me to upload the final 50 digital pages (A4 size) for critique or should I just upload them to the reddit and call it a day?

2:09 AM, Monday December 28th 2020

You cannot submit any digital drawings for offical critiques as far as I know. It has to be done on paper with a fineliner. If you are worried about cost just pick up a ream of copy paper or printer paper which works great for all of these lessons and is preferable to sketchbooks or fancy paper and should only cost a few dollars.

10:13 AM, Monday December 28th 2020

No worries. Can I continue on to lesson 2 after I've finished. Even if I don't submit the 250 boxes for official critique? Or is it counted as a lesson?

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