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8:29 PM, Tuesday November 23rd 2021
Heya Anna27! congratulation on finishing the lesson 1 of the drawabox course, touching briefly on your work here i must say it's very well done and now lets move on to the feed back
Starting off at the first section of the lesson Lines exercise, your work on this section is well done your lines are confident and quite accurate and i see little to no wobbling here.
Moving on to the second section of the lesson Ellipses exercise, keeping up the good work it's nice to see that these ellipses are spaced out nicely and the lines are smooth and confident, though a little nitpick here is that i wish to see a little more variety of degrees in the funnels exercise, other than that i have little to say in this section.
And lastly the third section of the lesson Boxes exercise, your work on the plotted perspective and rough perspective are well done. In the rotated boxes exercise however i see that some of your boxes corners had a noticeable gap between them and i see that had you rotated your boxes more you could've made a rounder silhouette. Your work on the organic perspective exercise are nice but i think i see attempts being made to add line weight, while it's encouraged you should only add line weight to parts of the line rather than to superimpose the whole line since that leads to overworking your lines and keeps your mistakes vague.
And thats all i have to say about your work hopefully you can learn more from this.
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move to 250 boxes challenge
6:41 PM, Thursday November 25th 2021
Thank you so much for your critique, I'll pay more attention on the rotated and organic boxes!
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