250 Box Challenge
11:05 PM, Thursday July 23rd 2020
Finally finished all 250! Would be grateful for any feedback :))
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1:55 PM, Wednesday February 17th 2021
Hi Waxwerk, I've checked your submission.
Congrats on completing the 250 box challenge, it looks like you learned a lot from it! Now, there just a few things I wanted to touch on.
First of all, I see that the only thing holding your boxes down is sometimes your back corners, Here is a demo for you to try out whenever you are doing boxes as a warm up.
Another thing that I'm seeing is that your boxes are getting smaller as you progress through the lesson, this is usually the other way around, people get more confident and make bigger boxes. You did a great job with your boxes, that's why I advice you try to make them bigger so you can practice doing more confident and longer mark. This also goes for the constructions you will make in further lesson, always try to make them big.
I found your lesson 3 submission, and saw that no one had critiqued this lesson! so now I will go over your lesson 3 submission.
I'm gonna mark this challenge as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2
2:57 AM, Monday February 22nd 2021
Weijak, Thank you so much for your thoughtful critique on both this and lesson 3!! I'm going to keep doing boxes as a warm up and make them bigger!
12:30 PM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021
I'm glad you found my critique useful!
Keep it up.
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