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5:29 PM, Thursday April 9th 2020
There are some slight wobbles in your superimposed lines but overall they look smooth and consistent. Your ghosted lines look confident and they maintain the correct trajectory. You didn't draw through your first few ellipses but you did a good job drawing through the rest of them.
Your ellipses in planes are a bit deformed so this exercise would make for a good warmup in the future. Ghosting more should help you make smooth elliptical shapes. Your ellipses in funnels look fairly well aligned to the minor axis and the spaces between the ellipses looks nice and snug.
For your rotated boxes, the gaps look narrow and consistent. For your other box exercises, some of your lines are difficult to see and I assume it may be because your pen might be dying but if that isn't the case try to make a more clear line. Overall, well done and good luck with your boxes!
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Move on to the 250 box challenge.
4:52 AM, Thursday April 16th 2020
Thank you very much for taking the time and writing a thorough critique. I will take your points to heart and apply them going forward.
Though challenging, I really enjoyed these exercises.
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These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
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