Chironex

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    12:49 PM, Monday August 24th 2020

    Thank you for the feedback!

    Will keep this in mind when moving forward.

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    1:38 PM, Saturday August 1st 2020

    Lines looks good, some of them wobble and some arch so make sure you draw from the shoulder with confidence.

    Ellipses wobble a lot and some are drawn through more than 3 times. Confident and smooth execution is more important than accuracy.

    Your plotted perspective looks quite rushed, try to take your time with the exercises.

    Rough perspective: Again, looks a bit rushed, and like you not completely read the instructions. Your front horizontals are parallel to the horizon and the verticals perpendicular, but the back end of the boxes are a bit messy. Take your time and think where the edges would end up, don't guess.

    Rotated boxes: If you feel like you can't focus long enough to complete the exercise in one sitting it is better to break it in to smaller sections to be able to focus, think and learn. The mid-cross looks ok but the other ones are not even consistent in the vanishing point. The gaps between them is not small and consistent.

    Organic boxes: Good start, you will practice this and the things mentioned above when you tackle the 250 boxes challenge.

    Next Steps:

    Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes).

    Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge. When you do, make sure to take your time and read the instructions carefully.

    Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!

    Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1.

    https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365036548820959245/719206196459995146/image0.png

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete. In order for the student to receive their completion badge, this critique will need 2 agreements from other members of the community.
    3 users agree
    8:01 AM, Tuesday July 28th 2020

    Superimposed lines: Most look good, but there's some fraying in both ends of your lines, it will be remedied by taking more time to line up your pen at the start.

    Ghosted lines/planes: Most of the lines are looks good, great job!

    Ellipses: Some of them looks like they're drawn through more than 3 times. Only draw through your ellipse 2-3 times. That being said, they look good and confindently drawn. There's some wobble and overlapping but accuracy will come with time.

    Boxes: You've redrawn some lines, which is a no-no. It's like the saying goes "measure twice, cut once", ghost until you're confident and draw only once. Some of the rotated boxes are not rotated properly but majority looks good. Organic boxes are a good start, you'll work on more consistent convergence in next step.

    Overall you did good, but remember not to draw the line more than once.

    Continue to practice being confinent in the execution of the stroke. No redrawing lines or drawing through an ellipse more than 2 times.

    Next Steps:

    Next Steps:

    Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes), focus on not redrawing any lines.

    Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.

    Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!

    Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1.

    https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365036548820959245/719206196459995146/image0.png

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 3 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
    2 users agree
    9:50 AM, Saturday July 25th 2020

    Superimposed lines: There's some fraying in both ends of your lines, you should take more time to line up your pen at the start.

    Ghosted lines/planes: Most of the lines are good, but there's some slight wobble in some, so just keep practicing confidency in the stroke.

    Ellipses: Many of them are drawn through more than 2 times, some drawn only once. The instructions clearly states that you should draw through your ellipse 2-3 times. This also makes harder to determin how wobbly they are, but it looks like you need to focus more on smooth and confident strokes and less on accuracy as you still can see the wobble.

    Boxes: You've redrawn some lines, which is a no-no. Some of the rotated boxes are not rotated, just subjected to the vanish point. Organic boxes are a good start, you'll work on more consistent convergence and such in next step.

    Overall you did good, but remember to read the instructions carefully.

    Continue to practice being confinent in the execution of the stroke. No redrawing lines or drawing through an ellipse more than 2 times.

    Next Steps:

    Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes), focus on not redrawing any lines and be confindent in your stroke. Remember to read the instructions carefully for each exercise.

    Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge

    Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!

    Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1.

    https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365036548820959245/719206196459995146/image0.png

    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.
    2 users agree
    10:33 AM, Monday July 20th 2020

    Lines: There's some wobble in your lines, try to be more confident when drawing the lines, that accuracy will come with practice. There might be a tendancy to arching in the lines so make sure you're drawing with your shoulder.

    Ellipses: Here you've focused more on staying within the bounds than drawing a confinent smooth ellipse. Try ghosting your ellipses before drawing them and just go for it when you started.

    Rough perspective: Some of the boxes does not have one point perspective, meaning that the horizontal line is not parallel to the horizon and the vertical line is not perpendicular to the horizon. Also try to take a bit nore time ghosting back to the VP to get the right angle of the line to avoid guessing.

    Rotated boxes: Some of the boxes aren't rotated,

    Organic perspective: You missed some perspective, but nothing to worry about as you'll work on it in 250 boxes challenge.

    Good job overall. Be specially careful about the wobbly lines, remember, confidence over accuracy.

    Next Steps:

    Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)

    Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge

    Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!

    Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1.

    https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365036548820959245/719206196459995146/image0.png

    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.
    10:04 AM, Saturday July 18th 2020

    Thanks for great feedback, will keep it in mind going forward.

    10:00 AM, Saturday July 18th 2020

    I guess you got lucky!

    And to clarify, I realized that I wrote lesson 2, but I meant "the next step", which in fact is 250 boxes challenge. Hope I don't need up everything for you, I was getting tired in the end.

    2 users agree
    7:39 PM, Sunday July 12th 2020
    1. Superimposed lines: There seems to be some minor arching on the lines, make sure you draw frow the shoulder.

    2. Ghosted lines: Here the arching is seen as well.

    3. Ghosted planes: They're not perfect but looks good. You don't wobble or miss your goal with the lines with a lot.

    4. Ellipses: They are snuggly fit against each other but often go out of bounds within the frame.

    5. Ellipses in planes: Most of them don't fill the entire plane and there's a lot of divergence between the first and secon laps of the ellipses.

    6. Funnels: Same as previous ellipses homework.

    7. Plotted perspective: Nothing.

    8. Rough perspective: Some arching in the lines and some width and height lines are not parallel/perpendicular to the horizon.

    9. Rotated boxes: Corners between boxes are a bit large. The ones that are not in along he horizontal or vertical line don't feel rotated.

    10. Organic perspective: Some of the boxes that inconsistent in size dependent on their location along the line - some boxes that are supposed to be closer are smaller than some that are supposed to be further away.

    Next Steps:

    Good job, start doing the 250 boxes challenge while continue to work on the things I've noted above, for example do a 5-10 min warm up using one of these exercises.

    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.
    2 users agree
    12:14 PM, Sunday July 12th 2020
    1. Superimposed lines: There seems to be some arching on the lines, be sure to use your shoulder when drawing. Some lines have fraying in the beginning to, indicating you didn't start at the right spot.

    2. Ghosted lines: There's some wobble in most lines, try to be more confident and smooth in when you draw the lines.

    3. Ghosted planes: Same wobble here as in the previous exercise.

    4. Ellipses: The ellipses does not stay within their bounds, some overlapping into other ellipses or outside the frame line. Some of them are also not reach the whole way to the frame lines. Some of them are also not smoothly elliptical, but wobbly and bumpy. Keep practicing to increase your accuracy. Try to be more confindent in your execution of the motion.

    5. Funnels: Some of the ellipses are tilted slightly wrong, making the degree of the ellipse a bit off. And same issues as the previous ellipse exercises.

    6. Plotted perspective: You've drawn some lines twice, which is bad practice.

    7. Rough perspective: The width lines should be parallell to the horizon and the height lines perpendicular to it.

    8. Rotated boxes: I think some of the boxes are not rotated, they just converge against the vanishing point.

    9. Some boxes are smaller than those further back, scewing the perspective a bit.

    In general I think it looks good, of course there are much room for improvement but that's why there are more lessons after this. This is also my first time critiquing so hope this makes sense.

    Next Steps:

    I would continue to practice what I mentioned above as warm ups during lesson 2.

    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.
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