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6:29 AM, Friday April 10th 2020

Hi there I'll be handling your 250 Box Challenge Critique.

I can see from all the notes and frowny faces that you had a bit of a tough time with this challenge, and while you can still improve you deserve to pat yourself on the back for completing the challenge. It takes a lot of willpower to get through all of them and you did show signs of improvement.

Around half way through the challenge when you started drawing larger boxes it definitely helps you understand what's going on more. Around this point your convergences start to become more consistent and you get less sets of lines that diverge.You are still getting some wobbling and arcing in your lines which probably comes from focusing so much on your accuracy, but remember that smooth and confident lines are our primary goal, accuracy is the secondary one. You may find this example helpful, it shows how each line in a set relates to one another, and that how the 2 inner lines tend to be very similar, while the outer 2 may vary more depending on the positon of the vanishing point. Remember that as the vanishing point moves further away from the box each pair of lines will become more parallel.

While there's still room to improve, you have improved over the course of this challenge and I believe you will continue to do so with more mileage. I'm marking your challenge complete, remember to work on creating your lines as smoothly and confidently as possible, don't redraw lines when you make mistakes it has the effect of making things look messy. Keep working on previous exercises and draw boxes as your warm ups and you'll continue to gain better understanding of how all of these concepts interact with each other.

Good work, and good luck with Lesson 2.

Next Steps:

Keep practicing previous exercises in your warm ups, and start lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
3:58 PM, Tuesday April 21st 2020

Thanks

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