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9:10 PM, Friday January 29th 2021
Lines
They are generally good and they improve over the set, but near the end you still have some wobbly lines. Remember that drawing confident lines is more important than drawing them accurately, so always focus on confidence over accuracy.
Ellipses
Your ellipses look really nice! Only issue is that some ellipses overlap a little bit. But prioritizing the confidence over accuracy is good.
On the funnels some of your your center ellipses also look a little wobbly, but the rest of them look solid.
Boxes
On boxes your lines are getting a little less confident. Approach lines as you did on the previous exercises. It doesn't matter if they're in a box or in a plane, the approach is the same.
You're also having a little bit of trouble maintaining horizontal lines parallel to the horizon. It's hard, but keep trying to do your best on it. Don't forget you can replace dots before drawing a line if you feel that the previous dot was misplaced.
On organic perspective It also looks like you repeat a couple of lines to try to correct them. Don't forget that no matter how off a line is, you shouldn't repeat it.
Perspective on the boxes has issues, but you'll work on it on the box challenge, so nothing to worry about.
Overall though nice job, keep it up and good luck with the box challenge!
Next Steps:
First off, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the 250 box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a good way of learning and solidifying concepts. Critiquing can help expose your own gaps in knowledge and is great review.
-Current submissions are also super high. If you do some critiques, those would be less critiques myself and others have to do before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. The new system ordering submissions also makes that the more agrees your critiques have the higher you'll be placed in the queue of submissions, which will improve your chances of getting critiques faster as well.
It's totally optional of course, but me and others who are critiquing would appreciate it if you gave it a shot.
There's a really awesome community member named Elodin who critiqued my lesson 1 and most of the credit for the critiquing framework I used goes to him. He made a pretty useful guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions here.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to. I certainly felt that way and didn't start critiquing until a few months after I completed lesson 1, but once I started it helped a lot and since you've completed lesson 1 you shouldn't feel like you aren't ready.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
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