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8:57 AM, Sunday February 18th 2024

Hello there I call myself Quat and I am going to review your exercises for lesson1.

First of all the line section of lesson 1: in the Superimposed lines exercise Your lines were wobbly for a lot of lines and I think that you could have used have used more of the space in the paper, but seeing how the rest of the submission turned out I won't make you redo the exercise.

The rest of the lines exercises are well made and there is nothing to point out.

Next the Ellipses section of lesson1: in the tables of Ellipses experience for one page some of the Ellipses are flouting weirdly and without touching any corners,and I might need to ask you to redo this exercise. as for the rest of the Ellipses exercises , you seem to have done a good job and I don't have anything to critique.

Lastly the box section of lesson1: you have followed the instructions pretty well, but in the organic perspective exercise you did an entire page instead of dividing the pages into 3 or so sections, also your hatching lines make it very hard to understand what is going on, try to use less of them and spread them a bit wider next time.

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1 page of the tables of Ellipses exercise and 1 page of the organic perspective exercise

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3:31 AM, Monday March 11th 2024

Hello there Quat! Thanks for the detailed corrections. Here are the revision exercises that you gave me: https://imgur.com/a/zpC7tzC. A few notes on them:

-I still struggle with giving my ellipses a consistent shape, despite following the ghosting method to the best of my ability.

-For the organic perspective page, there are a lot of boxes being obstructed by others. That's because I drew the center lines with my eyes closed, so some segments ended up overlapping. Sorry for my stupidity.

5:16 PM, Wednesday March 13th 2024
edited at 10:18 AM, Mar 22nd 2024

Don't mind this, I don't know why there is two of my reply

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Your next step is 250 boxes challenge

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edited at 10:18 AM, Mar 22nd 2024
4:38 PM, Wednesday March 13th 2024

The organic perspective exercise looks crampt , In your case the drawings are Comprehensive but you should keep an open eye for it becomes incomprehensible.

But over all Your exercises look good enough for you to move on to the 250 boxes challenge

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4:20 AM, Wednesday August 28th 2024

I added my "agree" to your critique, i just wanted to add a note for the 'rough perspective' exercise, make sure to draw those colored mark lines all the way to the horizon line so you can fully see how accurate you are being. Those colored marks are meant to help you see where your convergences are going off, and they will be a lot more helpful if they extend all the way to the horizon. I hope that helps! Happy box drawing!

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