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11:58 PM, Monday November 22nd 2021

Hi, first of all I congratulate you upon completing this challenge as it requires patience and time. However there are some things that you have to take in consideration.

All of your boxes have dramatic foreshortening, which suggests an object with very large dimensions, but as we go through this course you'll notice that most things we'll draw are not immensely large, and our constructions will make use of forms with very shallow foreshortening.

Try to vary your rates of foreshortening more. Right now they're pretty much all being drawn with a very dramatic rate of foreshortening, but you're not experimenting with more shallow foreshortening at all. It's important to practice both.

Remember that the reason why we extend our lines is to be able to identify or mistakes and try to improve them, I can't really imagine that the way you drew most of your boxes really gave you much useful information in that regard, and so there wasn't much room for growth page over page.

Next Steps:

Please consider drawing 50-75 more boxes with shallow foreshortening or far away vanishing points, as it is very important to get later on.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:09 PM, Thursday November 25th 2021

I really appreciate that you have reviewed my homework. I will make the respective boxes to be able to advance.

But a question arose for all this:

Should I upload the suggested boxes too or do I just save them?

And how can I make sure I'm qualified to go to lesson 2?

7:18 PM, Thursday November 25th 2021

If you want, you can upload them, answer to this critique with the link, and I'll review them.

2:27 AM, Thursday March 3rd 2022

I'm back!!

I have taken some time to rest, retrain and be able to feel more comfortable with other aspects of art during my definitive path.

I have practiced several times in order to show again my tasks that have been entrusted to me, and here I want to present them ready.

Thank you very much for the task that you left me, I have noticed an improvement in the aspects that you have pointed out to me and I feel ready for the next challenges.

https://imgur.com/a/WxadGVo

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3:23 AM, Monday March 7th 2022

hello brother would you like also to give critique to my 250 boxes lesson ?? https://drawabox.com/community/submission/LVP3J18 and thank you so much for giving a time to take a look at my boxes

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