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9:54 PM, Friday July 17th 2020
Hi there! Vixen didn't provide any adittional steps so I will. I think you did a pretty good job overall, congrats on finishing the box challenge!
Like vixen said, you haven't added lineweight and hatched faces of the boxes, but this is optional. Just like vixen, I recommend doing it, but it's up to you in the end.
Your lines in general feel pretty clean and good! You did a great job at focusing at confidence instead of accuracy, and your accuracy is pretty good nevertheless.
Your boxes convergences end up being pretty good by the end, though you're having issues with the inner corner, a thing that is completely normal. Check this order of drawing boxes, and this diagram, they helped me a lot on getting the inner corner better.
Next Steps:
Congratulations on finishing lesson the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. Uncomfortable also implemented a system that makes your submissions appear higher in the queue if you do critiques, so that would improve your chances even more.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on lesson 2, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
and here's another on critiquing box challenge submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
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2:11 PM, Friday May 29th 2020
so, my feedback is that it looks like you rushed through this exercise instead of working carefully through the exercises. the line work isn't every straight, so it doesn't look like you were doing the ghosting method. there are no weighted lines that I can see, and no hatching for the side that faces the viewer. These things are important to do while you are learning the boxes because it helps reinforce the method. Your brain will get better at visualizing 3D space if you take your time.
I don't know how many pages people generally ask for when something needs some work, but I think you should do some more boxes, methodically, and work on your line work. plan every corner and if you need to, make all 3 vanishing points on the same page.
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