Good job completing the challenge!
Here are my thoughts:
1) You have not hatched one side as suggested. Not only is it helpful for visualization, it provides a great deal of additional line practice.
2) 20 per page is too much. Boxes are too small with so many. No practice with long lines. 4-6 per page lets you vary sizes, orientations, and allows clearer 3xtension lines for error checking.
3) Some good forshortening throughout, but it would be nice to see more variation, with a few more dramatic foreshotenings.
4) Some line wobble early on, improves later, needs more practice and confidence.
5) Some mistakes were redrawn. Stay away from this habbit. Let the midtake stay, complete the box as is, draw the extensions, see the mistake as a whole. It really helps with visualizing.
Nice work, keep it up.
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I would like to see another 50 boxes, larger, with dramatic foreshortening and hatching lines, 4-6 per page, strong, confident lines. Practice all skills from dots to ghosting to lines.
Reply with revisions.
Hi thank you for taking the time to see and comment my submission for the challenge, I just want to clarify that there weren't 20 boxes per page but 10, although I get what you mean, and second I make the boxes with a shallow perspective because it was a recomendation in the instructions. Anyway here is my reply with the link to the 50 boxes more, I have made 6 per page and try to make more dramatic perspective and hatched one side as I should have done in the first place.
Thank you for the critic it was really helpful.
I don't know why but in the post some images are turn upside down but I couldn't fixe it sorry if it's an inconvenience.
really excellent effort, well done!
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move om to lesson 2
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