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2:35 PM, Thursday June 4th 2020
edited at 2:36 PM, Jun 4th 2020

Those are much better! Hatching is optional, if you can do it to get extra practice, and I do recommend it, as well as adding lineweight with superimposed lines to the silhouette, but if you don't want to do it, you don't have to.

About the boxes, like I said, they're better. You're still having problems with the convergences, and I'm pretty sure is because you're thinking about lines in pairs, instead of thinking about all the lines at the same time. When drawing a line, you need to take in mind all of the other lines on it's set of parallel lines. It's explained here on this diagram.

I've found doing boxes on this order helps as well, so be sure to give it a try, specially for shallow foreshortening boxes.

Next Steps:

Do 5 more boxes with shallow foreshortening, to see how you're doing with them, and you're done, keep it up and good luck!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 2:36 PM, Jun 4th 2020
9:37 AM, Tuesday June 9th 2020

https://imgur.com/a/bLm82OE

here they are. i think I'm gonna always do some box exercises to keep improving.

8:06 PM, Tuesday June 9th 2020

Yup, you're supposed to keep doing boxes exercises forever on your warmups, once you get the convergences constantly correct, then you should move on to the advanced exercises explained on the lesson.

In general, those are looking better! The only issue I find is that you have lines converging in pairs, instead of going all towards the vanishing point together, as you can see in your box number 3's blue lines. Remember the diagram I posted earlier on the last message. Lines will converge depending on their relationship to the vanishing point. The closer they are, the less they will converge, and the farther away they are, the less they will converge. This applies to the box I mentioned earlier.

In that box, the outer lines converge at the same rate as the inner ones, even though the outer lines are farther away; as the farther lines are farther away, they must converge more so the box ends up correct. Tried explaining it a bit more in depht here.

In general, keep in mind the whole set of paralel lines when drawing a line on your boxes. Instead of thinking in pairs. For instance, when drawing the blue line on top, you should keep in mind all other 3 lines I represented on the picture, always think about the relationship between all lines, and your boxes will improve.

Good job overall! I recommend going into the advanced exercises as I mentioned earlier when you stop having this converging in pairs issue with your boxes, so you can keep challening yourself and improving.

Next Steps:

Overall you're doing a p good job so marking as complete, congratulations on finishing the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2.

As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge submissions.

-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.

-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.

It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.

Good luck on lesson 2, and keep up the good work!

NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.

There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
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