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11:59 PM, Tuesday June 30th 2020

Congratulations on completing lesson 1! You did a pretty good job overall and I can see you improved in a lot of areas by the end.

Before we begin I just want to mention that in the future, when you go to scan your homework submissions, it would be better to scan your homework using the "photo" setting instead of the "drawing" setting. The drawing setting tends to up the contrast on an image and can cause you to lose some of the subtlety in your line work.

Starting with your super-imposed lines, I can see you do a pretty good job making your lines straight and with confidence. This goes for your ghosted lines as well, though I can see that you struggled a little to end your lines where you wanted. One thing you can do is try lifting the pen off of the page to finish your mark instead of stopping the motion of your arm. That said, your planes appear fairly well constructed with a lot of straight, confident looking lines.

You did pretty well with your tables of ellipses homework. I can see in some areas that you were hesitating which causes some of your ellipses to appear wobbly and misshapen. Keep in mind that you should approach your ellipses the same way you approach a straight line. That means ghosting out the mark from the shoulder and executing it with confidence. Your ellipses do improve as time goes on. In your ellipses in planes homework there is less wobbling overall in your ellipses and you do a pretty good job of placing them carefully inside the planes. Your funnels show improvement as well, with even less hesitation showing in your work overall.

With your rough perspective homework you do a pretty good job of placing your boxes correctly. Your horizontal lines stay fairly parallel to the horizon and your vertical lines stay perpendicular. Many of your boxes also converge near or on your plotted vanishing point, which is something you will work on more in later steps.

The rotated boxes homework is a challenging and complex exercise. You did a pretty good job for your first attempt. Your boxes have a good amount of rotation along the major axes and you kept the gaps between your boxes fairly narrow and consistent. I do see a few areas in your work where you appear to have some course correction in your marks. Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting. Otherwise you did a good job on this one!

Finally with your organic perspective boxes I can see that you really put in a lot of effort. There is some room for improvement with getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points. That is something you will work on more in the next steps.

Next Steps:

Continue to the 250 Box Challenge!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
12:26 AM, Wednesday July 1st 2020

Thanks for the critique, and I'll make sure to keep your advice in mind!

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