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1:50 AM, Tuesday December 13th 2022

Hey Rob. Sorry for the delay. I was hoping to get those revised assignments to you by the end of last week but I ended up being pretty busy, and while I have completed versions of each, I'm not especially happy with how they turned out, and have started reworking them with an emphasis on clean decisive careful strokes. They otherwise ought to comply with the directions, but they're a little skewed and messy, and since your feedback re-emphasized line quality so much, I feel like it might be worth my time to redo the rough perspective and rotated box assignments one final time and really focus on that, rather than resubmit sub-par ones that I might have to redo again anyway. If you think it'd be better to just push those through and continue drilling clean strokes during warm-ups, let me know. Otherwise, I'll hopefully have versions suitable for resubmission by the end of this week. Mainly I just wanted to touch base and let you know I appreciate your feedback and am sorry I'm being less timely than I'd have liked on those assignments.

10:26 PM, Tuesday December 13th 2022

Don't worry at all about rushing to get these in. Take as much time as you need. I would also not recommend grinding these exercises and redoing them a bunch of times. All of the skills you are practicing with these exercises you will be practicing throughout this entire course.

2:48 AM, Friday December 16th 2022

Here is the link to my revision assignments. Thank you!

https://imgur.com/a/7UowMqm

10:37 PM, Friday December 16th 2022

Okay, these are looking better. A few notes here. For the rough perspective exercises the linework is much more confident overall but I'm starting to see some line wobble when you are adding line weight. If you want to add line weight make sure you don't revert back to using your wrist and are drawing from your shoulder with confidence. Also added line weight should be subtle so try and only go over a line one additional time instead of multiple times. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

The rotated box exercise looks pretty good as well. Although you drew this at a decent size one thing that would have helped you would have been to just draw this bigger overall. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes but one of the reasons this exercise started to fall apart on you is because you didn't keep the gaps between your boxes narrow and consistent. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/guessing Keeping the gaps narrow and consistent really helps with inferring information about neighboring boxes rotation and proportion. While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle.

I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.

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The 250 Box Challenge

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