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3:50 PM, Sunday February 2nd 2020
Hey SirFry! You made it through the whole challenge! Really fantastic work, 250 boxes is nothing to sneeze at.
So I will say that your start here is a bit rough, but I'm only mentioning that because, as I'm scrolling through, I feel like I can pinpoint the spot where you got it and it all kind of clicked into place. I love seeing that. It was Box 20 that struck me that way and while there are a few fiddly boxes after that, your work from this point on is consistent and quickly improving.
By the end of the challenge, but your linework and your convergences are showing incredible improvement. Your linework is clean and neat, and your hatch marks are geninuely beautiful and tightly controlled. Really nice work here! You do have a small tendency to go back over mistakes with another line, which does draw the eye rather than cover up the mistake, so try and keep an eye on this. You'll want to nip that in the bud because it can make otherwise clean work look a bit messy.
As for your convergences, your boxes are looking solid. While you do still have a few stray sets of correction lines, they are few and far between by the end. Overall, all three sets are well controlled and diverging correctly. I love seeing this kind of improvement and I think the challenge was a huge success for you!
We share these notes as a matter of course at the end of every box challenge. They go over the angles of each correction line as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship may assist you in keeping your convergences accurate and consistent. Likewise, considering each line in relation to the lines with which it shares a vanishing point, rather than the lines with which it shares a plane or a corner can achieve the same goal.
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Really fantastic work here! I'm happy to mark this as complete and send you on to Lesson 2. Good luck!
10:14 PM, Sunday February 2nd 2020
Thanks for taking time to critique this for me! I appeciate the feedback and looking forward to lesson 2.
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