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2:41 AM, Thursday December 31st 2020
edited at 11:20 AM, Jan 30th 2021

I appreciate you giving me such a thorough review of my work. Thank you!

I really focused on confident strokes when going through the lessons, and while that's good, I think it caused me to not focus as much in other areas, such as the accuracy and curving of my lines, which became really noticeable issues in my Boxes exercises. I had a similar issue with ellipses, particularly because ghosting them caused me to sort of go into autopilot and I ended up not being mindful about how my ellipses should fit. I took all these pictures after completing Lesson 1, so I missed the opportunity to get an image of my Ghosted Planes exercise before doing Ellipses in Planes. My bad!

When it comes to drawing boxes, I definitely struggled with estimating the angle for parallel lines, as you observed in the Organic Perspective exercise. Also, I did not focus on line weight at all, so I'm sorry about that and I hope it didn't make the overlapping boxes too difficult to decipher. I'll work on that.

I will redo the exercises you recommended with your suggestions in mind and post them here when I finish. It'll probably be over the next few weeks, as I just work on Drawabox when I have time, and of course I don't expect you to continue following up with me. I'm grateful for your help in starting me off!

edited at 11:20 AM, Jan 30th 2021
2:28 PM, Thursday December 31st 2020

No problem! I look forward to seeing your exercises redone.

While I'm here, I'd like to ask a favor. I submitted lesson 1 a while ago, but it never got reviewed and it's pretty far back at this point, so it's unlikely that it will get reviewed. Would you be able to look over it? Any advice and critiques would be appreciated!

10:43 PM, Thursday December 31st 2020
edited at 10:44 PM, Dec 31st 2020

Sure, I'd be happy to review your Lesson 1 submission. To be honest, I don't really feel confident in my ability to discern what is done well and what isn't, seeing as how I just completed these exercises myself, but I'll do my best. Hopefully it'll be helpful for you just to have another pair of eyes looking over your work.

edited at 10:44 PM, Dec 31st 2020
11:20 AM, Saturday January 30th 2021
edited at 11:29 AM, Jan 30th 2021

Hi! I've completed my revisions of the recommended exercises. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YDj06Gm0NH2roO7VkCtwkcqYryXsCkUr?usp=sharing

I still notice a lot of curving and overshooting in my Revised Ghosted Planes, but I've also been doing this exercise to warm up since then and I think I'm beginning to improve.

I feel that the ellipses in my Revised Funnels are a little shakier this time around because I focused more on trying to fit them in the funnels.

For the Revised Rotated Boxes, I added line weight and hatching. To add line weight, I'd go over the strokes multiple times, but sometimes I'd struggle to keep it consistent, so there's some visible fraying. I also used a greater angle of rotation for the outer boxes. I think it turned out much better this time!

Finally, for the Revised Organic Perspective, I don't think I showed much improvement. You can see that I still struggle with keeping opposite sides of the boxes parallel. I am conscious of how they should be; it's just that my estimates when I plot them are off. Hopefully I'll get better at it as I tackle the 250 Box Challenge. Since this was the last exercise I completed, I feel that you can see the improvement I made in drawing straight, confident individual lines, compared to my Revised Ghosted Planes assignment.

Please don't feel obligated to critique these revisions, but if you want to give any input, I always appreciate it!

edited at 11:29 AM, Jan 30th 2021
12:10 AM, Tuesday February 2nd 2021

Dear Francis,

They look great! I definitely notice improvement, especially with the funnels and and the rotated boxes (these look great). While the issues you mentioned still exist to some degree in the organic perspective and ghosted planes exercises, you will get a lot of practice in the 250 boxes exercises.

It looks to me like you are definitely ready to tackle the 250 boxes exercise. Good luck - I'm doing it now, and it takes a lot longer than it looks, but I'm also finding it to be a lot more fun than the earlier exericises.

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