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12:46 AM, Thursday May 21st 2020

Lines and ellipses are both pretty good, you're focusing on confidence over accuracy as you were told to, keep it like that and you'll nail the accuracy with practice.

Only thing I notice is that you got fraying on both ends on some of your lines. Remember to place your pen carefully at the start dot of each line, so it doesn't happen.

On boxes, they're pretty good as well, I have a few things to point out so you can keep improving:

-On rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.

-On organic perspective, when adding lineweight, do it only to the parts of the lines that overlap, don't add lineweight to the complete lines.

-The boxes in organic perspective have some issues, but that's totally to be expected, don't worry about it as you'll work on it on the box challenge.

Overall great work!

Next Steps:

First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.

As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.

-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.

-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.

It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.

Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!

NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.

There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
6:35 AM, Thursday May 21st 2020

Thank You for pointing them out and sorry for some blur image quality

Will do even more rotated boxes as warm up routine

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