Colord44

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    11:35 PM, Friday September 12th 2025

    You're welcome

    3:32 AM, Saturday July 27th 2024

    Thank you for taking time to review and for thinking I'm ready to move on. Originally it was suggested I do lesson 6 to help with figure drawing and I quickly saw why. I was very much prepared to do revisions as I've had to do that for most of the lessons and challenges. So getting this pass on the first try (Even if there's areas to improve), is a wonderful thing to hear.

    I do apologize the ref images are missing. This is because Imgur goofed up. Either I did something or it was on them, but the original submission with those refs on gets a 404 error. I had delted the ref images by then so the drawings were all I had left. Thankfully I didn't have to start all over again.

    So cleaning up lines and things, I feel is much easier to do digitally, luckily which these lessons can be applied to. it's harder with traditional for sure.

    For form intesection, keeping it 3d on all sides, I think I know what I can implment to help with in terms of the 3d program, in addition to getting practice. After all, this is the first time art wise I had to think about constructing stuff at all.

    As for in general with objects, the key was to keep going and trying to make it work, never starting over, which is probably why the things came out as they did, even with mistakes. I found out later, it got easier to do with these objects, some of which are digital that I posted in the discord, having things be much better than anything I had attempted before. Though I feel having the original ref images could have helped as one of the objects was a staple remover. And using thicker lines to help define the outermost form and thiner lines for construciton has also been used as well in the digital sense.

    So final thoughts; again thank you for reviewing this, and I feel with what I'll be doing next will cover the suggestions you gave so I can imrpove and get better.

    8:41 PM, Thursday June 27th 2024

    Much better. Good work, now you're ready for the 250 box challenge.

    Next Steps:

    Move onto 250 box challenge.

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    4:37 AM, Thursday June 27th 2024

    Hi, I'll be going over you Hw lessons

    Superimposed lines: There was quiet a bit of fraying in first attempt, but your second one had a lot less so good improvement.

    Ghosted Lines: Some miss but overall good.

    Ghosted planes: Just be really careful and make sure all the lines connect to the right dot, but good attempt

    Table of Elipses: Very good.

    Elipses In a plane: Not bad, I can tell you tried your best with teh tricker planes.

    Funnels: Good

    Ploted Perspective: Good

    Rough Perspective: Other than one, ever other was good, so we'll count that as a pass.

    Rotated Boxes: Good

    Organic Perspective: Good.

    Next Steps:

    Move onto the 250 box challenge.

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    4:34 AM, Thursday June 27th 2024

    Hi, I'll be going over you Hw lessons

    Superimposed lines: Good work.

    Ghosted Lines: Clear understanding

    Ghosted planes: Very good

    Table of Elipses: Everything is snug and tight. Well done.

    Elipses In a plane: Well done on these.

    Funnels: Very good.

    Ploted Perspective: Very good.

    Rough Perspective: Good

    Rotated Boxes: Good

    Organic Perspective: Good

    Next Steps:

    Move onto the 250 box challenge.

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    4:32 AM, Thursday June 27th 2024

    Hi, I'll be going over you Hw lessons. First rule of thumb, upload right side up and in order of assignments.

    Superimposed lines: Good work, though the figure 8 wasn't needed as that's not a line ;)

    Ghosted Lines: Good job

    Ghosted planes: Good work.

    Table of Elipses: Wonderful

    Elipses In a plane: Good work

    Funnels: Good work.

    Ploted Perspective: Gorgeous.

    Rough Perspective: Good work.

    Rotated Boxes: Wonderful

    Organic Perspective: Good job.

    You're ready for 250 box challenge.

    Next Steps:

    250 box challenge is next; good luck.

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    4:28 AM, Thursday June 27th 2024

    Hi, I'll be going over you Hw lessons. First rule of thumb, always upload right side up.

    Hi, I'll be going over you Hw lessons

    Superimposed lines: Good use of curves here, well done.

    Ghosted Lines: Not bad attempt here.

    Ghosted planes: Good number here, they work.

    Table of Elipses: Nice job, especially the second attempt where everything is nice and snug.

    Elipses In a plane: Good attempt here.

    Funnels: No problems here.

    Ploted Perspective: Lovely line work.

    Rough Perspective: You completely missed the step of drawing the lines to the vanishing point.

    Rotated Boxes: Really Good

    Organic Perspective: Really good

    Next Steps:

    Though everything was good, the fact you missed a crutial step in rough perspective means I'd like to see one attempt with lines to the vanishing point.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    3 users agree
    4:19 AM, Thursday June 27th 2024

    Hi, I'll be going over you Hw lessons. First rule of thumb; make sure you uplaod your images right side up.

    Superimposed lines: It appears you understand as there's no fraying, though some curved lines would've been nice ot see.

    Ghosted Lines: Not bad overall. A few are missing their mark, but overall, not bad.

    Ghosted planes: I wish that you had the ghosted planes without the elipses, but it seems they are good.

    Table of Elipses: You are drawing through you're elipses, and second one was much better than the first with trying to stay in the boundries.

    Elipses In a plane: I think with this one you had some really difficult planes to keep your elipses in. A good effort though maybe a little less would have been better. But there's effort to work with the difficult planes.

    Funnels: Much better with less, try to always stay within the boundries.

    Ploted Perspective: Very beatiful line work, well done.

    Rough Perspective: clear understanding of this lesson.

    Rotated Boxes: A little rough but good job here.

    Organic Perspective: Really good effort, I feel you undertand the lesson.

    Overally, I think you are ready for the box challenge. It'll be tough, but I'm sure you'll pass.

    Next Steps:

    Move onto the 250 box challenge.

    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.
    2:36 PM, Friday September 29th 2023

    Right; I'm just trying to figure out why the things you noticed happened so that way I can learn and improve to get better. Your advice has helped and trying to figure how could I have done better looking back on them.

    5:36 AM, Friday September 29th 2023

    Thank you very much for the feedback. I had to go back and re-read through your description a couple times but I see what you meant. Drawing Elipses is tough, even more so traditionally and I think how this could have been avoided was more warming up and ghosting to really make sure I had it before putting my pen to the paper.

    As for the axis, with so many lines I think what happened was I might have gotten confused and misjudged where it was supposed to go. I'm wondering here maybe after the box maybe that axis should have been founded first to avoid that mistake? Just a thought. I wonder also if instead of going for such extreme angels perhaps minor ones would have been better for this challenge.

    That said while waiting for this the fun stuff posted in digital media I have not only been trying to apply bettern construciton with this channllenge, I feel my cylinders, lines, elipses, and boxes have gotten better so this challenege certianly has helped.

    Overall I think by just warming up more and better step by step for construction some of these things can be overcommed. In addition applying these things to my fun art also helps me grasp a better way of understanding these concepts. So once again thank you for going over this. I'll do my best moving forward.

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