7:36 PM, Sunday August 30th 2020
Congratulations on finishing the box challenge! Overall I think you've done a good job, following the instructions, extending your lines, and doing them overall, and I can see how you've improved over the set.
I'll try to mention everything I can catch so you can keep improving them:
-First of all, you've done 5-6 boxes per page, which is pretty good, but I you could have done them bigger. Try to fill the pages completely on the nex times you do this exercise.
-Second is the extension of lines. You've done it well, and in all of your boxes, but I recommend you to extend the lines all the way through. It's normal to try to avoid the lines colliding with other boxes, but ignore them. It's more important to extend them so you can see where your mistakes are more clearly.
-Third is variation of boxes, I've seen you've varied them, but there are a lot of orientations that you haven't tried. This is pretty normal, as it's hard to come up with new ones, so take a look at this diagram to give you more ideas about what orientations boxes can take
And lastly I want to talk about the main issues you have with your boxes. First of all, the biggest one, which is pretty uncommon, but as you have it in a few boxes, I wanted to cover it.
All divergences on a box outer lines can be avoided by thinking more before putting the lines on the page. This box you drew is one of the boxes that have this mistake.
I made this thing that explains how to fix this issue, so be sure to give it a read.
And lastly, the other issue also related to this, is the divergences on the inner corner. This one is much harder to fix, and it's common for students to still struggle with this, just like you, after having finished the box challenge.
To fix this, apart from practice, you can start thinking about the relationships between all the lines of your boxes. Drawing your boxes in this order might help you to get them better as well.
And lastly, here's a diagram that explains the thing I just mentioned about the relationship of the lines, it's a bit hard to understand, so don't hesitate to come back to it from time to time, to see if you can grasp it a bit better.
Overall you've done a good job, keep up the good work, and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Congratulations on finishing lesson the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge 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 and if you do some critiques, those would be less submissions I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. Uncomfortable also implemented a system that makes your submissions appear higher in the queue if you do critiques, so that would improve your chances even more.
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 lesson 2, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
and here's another on critiquing box challenge submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to, so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
