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5:02 AM, Wednesday September 7th 2022

Hi, and welcome to drawabox. So that I don’t need to look at the original submission, the revisions, and the community critique (even if the revisions show improvement, it’s important to me to make sure that everything that’s mentioned in that original critique is proper), I’ll just choose to look at the original submission, only, and if there’s any overlaps with what was said in the community critique, that you’ve addressed, you can simply ignore them. Let’s see.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and more often than not of a consistent trajectory. You’ll, occasionally, course-correct mid-line, so it’s clear that you’re still a little concerned with how well your line matches up to the guideline, but that’s perfectly normal, at this stage – no need to stress. The ghosted lines/planes look confident, but their start/end points are a little too big. Recall that a perfect line is meant to swallow them both. Them being this big, however, makes it clear to me that you’ve not actually plotted any for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. Be sure to, from now on!

The table of ellipses exercise looks good; your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. It seems as though you’re flicking your pen at the end of your rotations, however, giving you those tails at the end of your ellipses. See if you can lift it off, instead. The ellipses in planes look mostly good. There’s the occasional hesitation, but it seems to me that you’re aiming for your ellipses to be smooth, and rounded, and that’s what matters – not whether you succeed. I will ask, however, that you rotate around your ellipses 2 times (not 3) henceforth. It’ll make your mistake easier to notice. Your funnels are well done, too – their ellipses do a good job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness, and I’m pleased to see your ellipses increase in degree as they move away from the center.

The plotted perspective exercise looks good, though you should’ve used a ruler for your hatching lines.

The rough perspective exercise is a little mixed. Your convergences start off strong, and show some good improvement throughout the set. Your linework, however, is very scratchy. I’d normally assume that this is meant to be lineweight, but seeing how unevenly it’s been applied, I’m forced to conclude that it’s automatic reinforcing, instead. I’ll remind you that each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out.

The rotated boxes exercise (and the organic perspective exercise) are similar, but I’ll not repeat myself – just know that it obviously applies to them, too. For the rotated boxes exercise, it seems as if you’ve forgotten about the reminder boxes you’re meant to draw before you start. As a result, your boxes here don’t rotate nearly as much as they should. You’ve also not drawn through them. It seems to me as if you drew the entire top layer of your boxes, first, before adding anything else. That’s not how you’re meant to go through this exercise, however – you’re instead meant to draw boxes one at a time, so as to understand the way they rotate with respect to their neighbors.

The organic perspective exercise looks good. Your boxes here are nicely constructed, and they do a good job of flowing as intended, as per their size, and foreshortening. Nicely done.

Next Steps:

I’ll, before talking to you about the box challenge (which I notice you’ve completed), request one quadrant of the rotated boxes exercise, drawn as per the instructions. This is to say, 1/4th of it. So you’re looking at 2 axes lines, 2 reminder boxes, and 9 boxes beyond those. GL!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
10:02 PM, Thursday September 8th 2022

https://imgur.com/a/RKV9wMm

Hi Benj, thank you very much for your extensive Feedback, here is the link to my revised rotated box exercise.

4:30 AM, Friday September 9th 2022

Yup! - all is good! I'll, again, quickly mention that each line is to be drawn only once (there's an instance in your reminder box where your line stops short, and you extend it in a separate stroke - that, as you might expect, is a no-go), but everything else is looking solid, so you're okay to move on!

Next Steps:

Now, with regards to the box challenge, what I'll request that you do is simply submit your old one, but draw an additional 50 boxes, that more accurately reflect your current skill level, and submit those with it, too. GL!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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