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3:32 AM, Thursday June 27th 2024

Your lines Homework overall look pretty solid, theres only fraying on one end which means you took your time to properly reset your pen, great! I see a slight wobble on some of your longer lines but I see less of it in you second part so it looks like thats just learning curve, and of course its going to be a little bit rough until you spend some more time working with it so no worries! It does look like you end a little early on a few of the longer lines so just make sure to follow through. If you are having trouble ending it where you would like lesson 1 has some tips on that such as trying to lift your pen during the motion so as to not have to be as concerned about the end point. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines The tips in this lesson under overshooting.

Your ghosted lines are looking decent, I will point out that you seem to be going past a lot of those final points in the longer lines, so do consider the lifting tip again to try and avoid those overshoots. For the most part they are looking quite straight tho so thats good! If you find yourself doing arcs just make sure you are engaging that full arm and that you are pushing from the shoulder. It does seem like you are doing nice confident strokes though so it seems that you are getting the goal of the activity.

Now on the planes homework it seems that you felt a little less confident on a set of your marks. On a lot of the edges of your planes it looks like you might have not had the confident pull and wavered during it, or you might have been drawing from your wrist which would introduce the waver into it. Make sure you are remembering to go from your shoulder even on these short paths, and don't be scared of not doing it perfect or doing a solid line even if it doesn't land properly, it will come with time. Avoid doing the double lines on areas that you believe you messed up, you have to be OK with having mistakes at this point but its important that you don't go back and try to correct, the goal of this lesson set is to build confidence, and if you are going back and correcting you are robbing yourself of that chance to recognize your changes. Don't worry about not getting it right this time, you will have plenty of time to have do-overs when we use these as warm ups in the future. Also make sure not to rush, there's no time limit, it's at your own pace, it stinks to take it slow but you will be happier with yourself when you do. Overall its OK, but it is something I would consider having in the back of your mind to be something to work on.

On your ellipses planes I am a bit concerned because there doesn't see to be 2 cycles in any of the ellipses, This activity was intended to help you get practice with the elliptical shape and not following through with that is somewhat missing part of the practice, consider reviewing the lesson points please. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/tablesofellipses/drawingthrough I do appreciate your efforts on making sure the ellipses landed on the edges of the box and that is part of the intended goal of the activity, but you want to avoid making those egg shapes and making it significantly misshapen to hit those sides, keeping the shape of the ellipses would be helped by making sure you do the full 2 rotations. I would consider redoing this activity.

The same concerns return in this activity, on your first page it doesn't appear that you did full cycles on most if not any of the ellipses, I can see this on a lot of the ones you drew resulted in unjoined edges as well as a more circular and egg-shape, the goal of the lesson was for you to work on the consistency of your shape, and it seems that you might've missed out on that due to avoiding the follow through. I would consider redoing this activity.

The struggle with missing out on that initial ellipses movement is that it kinda shows up in all of them, in this case it seems you understood the idea of forming the funnel and the line, but with the motion and shape of the ellipses inside I don't feel comfortable with saying that you understood the goal of the lesson. I will praise your intent to aligning with the edges of the funnel, but a lot of the difficulty of this task is generated by going through the motion of an ellipses and still aligning it, it also seems like you struggled to allign the center line as well. Again I would consider redoing this activity.

The plotted perspective looks great, it looks like you followed the tasks pretty well, it seems in a couple cases you had trouble keeping track of which lines were for which box so thats something to consider in the future, but that's a skill that comes with practice. Overall solid, no notes beyond that.

On the rough perspective you seemed like you had a decent grasp of what was expected of you and it looks like you did your best to apply it, good job! A couple notes would be, make sure you aren't attempting to redo the lines, part of the course is accepting mistaken lines so you have to accept and commit to these mistaken lines, and just like I said in the beginning, make sure you are taking your time as well. Finally consider going back over the lesson plan on how to shape the boxes when they extend into that vanishing point, on a few of these boxes it seems that you are expanding rather than shrinking I don't believe you were guessing but this section does have some tips on how to try to get a more consistent line as well https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/20/guessing. Overall OK but something to consider maybe spending a little more time on.

On your rotated boxes its a solid attempt, a couple of notes to consider are as follows. Redoing lines, I already said my piece on that so moving on, it seems like you might have fallen into a situation where you don't rotate, as I can see pretty clear lines converging to the same point on your boxes on each of the cardinal directions https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notrotating. It also seems that on a lot of your corners you failed to draw through the box fully https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notdrawingthrough, I found that if you are having trouble identifying everything through all the lines it can help shade between the ones you have already created, so as to help identify what is in front and behind. Overall a solid go at a difficult task, I'm proud of you! This is a homework I would consider possibly revisiting, perhaps just in the forms of the warm-ups.

In the organic perspective it seems that you did a solid job on the pathing and box shaping, I can clearly see a Y in every box and they are nice and consistent. I think I know what I'm going to say next though for notes. No double lines or redos! Beyond that it seems to be solid competent work, the only think I would comment on would be perhaps trying a few different angles and alignments but I can see that you did a good job understanding the concepts for this homework!

Next Steps:

I think that you have solid understanding of most of the concepts at play here, However I would ask for you to go back and either rework or redo your ellipses along with a reread of the course work. After that I think I would be comfortable with you resubmitting the same homeworks with the reworked ellipses homework.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:08 AM, Tuesday July 9th 2024

Thank you for the extensive review of my work. I truly appreciate the details you provided on how I can improve my efforts as well as the suggestions you've provided. I will be sure to implement them as I move forward in the program. I have reworked the Ellipses section of my homework as per your suggestions and have resubmitted my Lesson 1 homework. Here is the updated link for reference:

https://imgur.com/a/ZxU72Tz

11:59 PM, Tuesday September 17th 2024

Sorry for the late response, it seems like you did a great job applying what was in the lesson! Thanks for considering my thoughts.

Next Steps:

In your current state it seems like the 250 box challenge would probably be a good next step, it will help you get practice at your dimensioning and envisioning items in 3D so as to improve on items like the rotated box. Make sure to read carefully and fully apply the needed actions! Good luck!

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