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1:36 PM, Wednesday January 26th 2022
edited at 1:38 PM, Jan 26th 2022

Congratulation on pushing through this tough challenge.

I am Doctormein And I'll be critiquing your homework for today.

- Regarding Lineweight , Extended Line , Hatching , Confident of execution.

Those are really well done. The Lineweight is applied to the silhouette with bold and confident execution However some of them are also Being applied to the inner corner Remember that no matter how off the line may be try not to repeat them , Same goes with the line that you've drawn for the boxes. Hatching for most part is great too. And never once have you extended line in the wrong direction. You've done well!

- Regarding Convergences of the boxes. similar orientation. And Inner corner issue.

You also excel at this part too. Most of the boxes you've drawn had Very good Convergence You know what you were aiming for which is a great thing. While there's still some Divergence And Pair Convergence This will get better with practice. But nonetheless I'll leave you with this diagram https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png

Your boxes is varied in orientation which is great! But try different boxes variation will certainly strengthen your understanding of the boxes. Thin and tall boxes. Wide but short boxes. You name it. This can be combined with different variation of foreshortening and orientation to create many different variation that will further help your understanding. But so far you've done well. This part is just a suggestion

Inner corner are the hardest one to get right. So i won't critique this much. However as the diagram presented earlier The Inner corner angle will be very similar to the line infront of it so try to keep this in mind

Although there is still some of weirdly shapes boxes (Like 30) You still done well overall

Next Steps:

Your submission is great! I can clearly see your improvement in those boxes from one of the first few to one of the very last.

It has changed drastically.

I recommend you check out the Advanced Boxes exercises I am certain that you are pretty ready to tackle it.

And Don't forget to also fix those stuff i mentioned in the critique.

***Lesson 2 awaits you.

I wish you the very best of luck in your artistic journey***

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edited at 1:38 PM, Jan 26th 2022
5:22 PM, Saturday January 29th 2022

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