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10:17 PM, Monday February 3rd 2020

There seem to be quite a few very oddly cube-y boxes in here, which makes me wonder how much planning you do with each one. If your first dot will lead you to a weird box, it is totally fine and encouraged to make a new dot! Boxes like 221 and 222 have weird bases that make the back line super askew and with how even the rest of the boxes are-likely could have been solved by making a dot, checking it, realizing it was wrong, and then making a new dot. You mention that you struggle with making the lines go where you want them to go, but sometimes we can help by giving good starting and ending points for our ghosting in the first place!

Also there are a few boxes where the incorrect side is hatched. There are 3 valid sides of these 2 point perspective boxes for hatching and 3 invalid sides. The 3 valid sides exist between the "arms" of your initial Y as seen in the organic perspective assignment.

Overall it seems like most of the errors can be worked on in the future in your warmups, or can be solved with just a tad bit more planning.

That said though, good job for completing the assignment!

Next Steps:

Continue to work on your planning so that your lines will go where you want them to, and keep track of which sides are facing the viewer, and you'll be good to go! Good luck with lesson 2

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2:00 AM, Thursday February 20th 2020

Thank you very much!

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