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11:57 AM, Monday March 17th 2025

Great job! I can already see an improvement with how you handle ellipses. For the rotated boxes, remember that you have to keep using neighboring lines to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which you might find a little bit challenging at this point. Nevertheless, it's good that you've finished them so you can start applying these concepts. I believe you'll be able to improve more throughout the box challenge.

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 box challenge.

Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
6:22 AM, Tuesday March 18th 2025

Thank you for such great critique

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