11:10 PM, Monday August 2nd 2021
ok it took me a while because i kept messing up the boxes but here they are
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12:22 AM, Tuesday August 3rd 2021
This is a good improvement overall! I can see your boxes are drawn at a much better size and you have your sets of lines converging more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.
A few things I want to point out before passing you onto lesson 2 first.
When it comes to your hatching I can see you are still struggling with executing your marks confidently. In some areas it looks as though you may be rushing a bit too. As I said before in your critique, "when you are working through Drawabox you should be employing the ghosting method for every mark you make. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use for our boxes."
When employing the ghosting method you are meant to take as much time as you need to plan and prepare your marks so that you can execute them confidently. There is no set limit on how long or how many times you should be ghosting. Just do it for as long as you need in order to maintain confidence in your mark making.
This brings me to your extra line weight where I can see a bit of this as well. Keeping in mind the advice I have given above, I would recommend that you try only adding one pass of line weight to your boxes as you do them in your warm ups. This will help you identify mistakes in your execution that can sometimes get lost when students go too heavy on the line weight.
Remember that you are meant to add a subtle amount of extra weight to the outer edges of your boxes, as shown here.
All that being said I will now mark this lesson as complete and you can continue to lesson 2!
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Continue to lesson 2!
9:13 PM, Tuesday August 3rd 2021
allright thank you for the critique and ill continue to work on ghosting my lines
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