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6:50 PM, Saturday April 23rd 2022

Good job on completing lesson 1!

Now, for the critique:

Your lines are confident, but there is an arch in your lines that remains till the organic box exercise, make sure to arch your lines the other way if your lines continue to curve one way. Overall, solid work

Your ellipsses are also good, really confident. In the table of ellipses exercise you draw a variety all of which are closely pacekd to one another. I noticed however that you draw through your ellipses more than three times, which makes them a little messy. Ideally you should draw through only two times, mostly three. Good work on the funnel exercise.

In the rough perspective exercise you've drawn over lines multiple times, and scratched lines out. This a huge no. You must be confident in your markmaking, think before putting pen to paper, and if it doesn't come out how you wanted, just move on. These are exercsies, not artpieces. Other than that, good work!

You're on the right trach for the rotated box exercise, but you have not finished it (bottom right is missing).

Good job in the organic perspective exercise. I feel you could have done a better job on letting your boxes overlap and exaggerating the scale of the boxes that are up close. These things really sell that there is a sense of depth in the drawing. But, these are things that you can improve upon when you do the 250 Box Challenge.

Once you finish the rotated boxes exercise, you'll have completed lesson 1 and will be able to start the 250 box challenge!

Next Steps:

Rotated box exercise.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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3:53 PM, Sunday May 1st 2022

Hello I'll review your homework.

For the Superimposed lines, I noticed that there is some wobbling in your lines. Though it's not considered as a mistake, it's worth mentioning it. It's mentioned in this section: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling

You did well on the ghosted lines exercice, the wobbling reduced considerably.

There is also lots of wobbling in your ghosted planes, you should priorities confidence over accuracy. The wobbling appear when you are nearing the ending dot.

For ellipses in plane, there is a bit of wobbling. When drawing ellipses, you should draw through your ellipses two to three times (preferably twice) : https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/drawingthrough Some of your ellipses are drawn through four or so times.

On the ellipses table, the are wobbly lines, I think you are not always using your shoulder. Some ellipses are drawn through only once, some of your ellipses overlap and/or go out of bounds. The angle of your ellipses should be consistent : https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/drawingthrough

For the funnel exercice, the degree of your ellipses is sometimes the same, when they should be thinner at the minor axis (the middle line) and wider at the edges. Your ellipses are not aligning on the minor axis : https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned

For the plotted perspective exercice, when hatching keep it on a single side. Otherwise it is good.

For the Rough Perspective exercice, the lines are plotted (extended) to the vanishing point, you should extend your lines until they touch the horizon line : https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/plottinglines. Otherwise, you understood how the exercice should be done.

Your rotated box exercice is missing the bottom right. Otherwise, it is good. Though, it would help to add some hatching/line weight.

On the organic perspective, you did good. Though there is one elongated box thrown in there that break the flow of the boxes. Also, there are some inconsistency on the size of your boxes (especially when they are further away).

There are some doodling/ scribbling on the white of your page, I believe it's mentioned in lesson 0. When you feel the urge to doodle, take a sketch book and draw there.

Next Steps:

Before attacking the 250 box challenge, I recommand you to do:

1 page of ghosted planes

1 page of table of ellipse

1 page of funnel

And of course finish your rough perspective exercice

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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