KenpachiRedgrave

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  • Sharing the Knowledge
    9:15 AM, Friday May 24th 2024

    Make sure to do the diagonal and parallel lines in the Ellipse in Planes exercise when you're going to do them for warm-ups. Cheers!

    Next Steps:

    Congratulations! You may now move on to the 2nd Lesson.

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    3:19 PM, Sunday April 21st 2024

    Hello! I see that in your Superimposed Lines exercise, you took your time to place your pen for each stroke, and executed them confidently. Congratulations, keep it up! In time, your accuracy will get even better.

    In the Ghosted Lines exercise, I see that you've executed most of your lines with confidence. But in some of them, the worry of hitting the point made you arc the lines. You needn't worry about accuracy, as it will come with practice. To overcome this fear, you can also spend more time in the preparation phase until you feel totally confident in your line.

    You've done an excellent job in the Ghosted Planes exercise, you're getting more comfortable with line execution. Congrats!

    Also excellent job on the Tables of Ellipses exercise! It is apparent that you got more comfortable with drawing the ellipses by the end of it.

    In Ellipses in Planes exercise, I see that the awkward shapes of some planes, and the additional challenge this exercise brings caused you to worry about your ellipses. In this exercise, it is important to take your time in the preparation phase and to confidently execute your ellipse. Prioritize the even shape and confident execution and leave the worry about hitting the 4 edges to the preparation phase.

    In the Funnels exercise, I see that you've struggled with aligning the ellipses to the middle line. It is very understandable that getting the curved lines to be symmetrical is difficult, which caused you to focus on hitting on funnels rather than the middle line. As Uncomfortable said "One of the core elements of this exercise is getting used to your ellipses aligning to the central minor axis line. You want to make sure that the minor axis cuts each ellipse into two equal, symmetrical halves, down their narrower dimension." Your ellipse execution is great though, and with this shift in focus, you'll get it right!

    Awesome work on the Plotted Perspective, Rough Perspective and Rotated Boxes exercises!

    In the Organic Perspective exercise, you did a good job on estimating the divergence of the parallel lines, but in order to avoid having too much distortion, you can try to keep the initial Y lines roughly the same. Otherwise, great job, and keep it up!

    Hopefully my review has helped, cheers!

    Next Steps:

    I recommend you to do one page of the Ellipses in Planes exercise. Try to spend more time in ghosting your ellipses and execute them confidently. Also I recommend you to do one more row of Organic Perspective. Cheers!

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    1:44 PM, Sunday April 21st 2024

    Generally in Drawabox, texture can be explained as showing how a specific surface would feel like to touch. Everything has a texture, be it coffee beans or clouds Each texture has its own pattern, but not every pattern is a texture, e.g., color patterns are not a texture we consider in drawabox.

    If something casts a shadow onto its surface, it can be felt by touch. Roasted coffee beans have bumps and creases, and a dented line in the middle, those are textures you can draw. 
    
    In a pile of coffee beans, each bean casts a shadow onto another, you can draw that cast shadow of the bean. 
    
    Clouds might be a little bit difficult to turn into texture, but they have their own cast shadows as well in their shapes.

    Hope it helps!

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    1:32 PM, Sunday April 21st 2024

    I think numbering the boxes in the order you've drawn them should be enough. You can also note it in the post while submitting your homework if you took a long break between the boxes.Other than that, writing dates shouldn't be necessary.

    1:28 PM, Sunday April 21st 2024

    Let's see if unicode symbols work.

    ????

    Oh they don't as well :D

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    1:22 PM, Sunday April 21st 2024

    If you're okay with doing the homeworks over again, I think getting feedback on your current level of skill would be more helpful in your journey. Hope it helps!

    1:17 PM, Thursday April 18th 2024

    Thanks a lot for taking your time and reviewing my work, I appreciate the feedback! Cheers.

    4:11 PM, Tuesday February 20th 2024

    Hey thanks a lot for taking your time and giving me feedback. I appreciate it! Cheers.

    8:17 AM, Monday December 25th 2023

    Hey! Thank you for taking your time and giving me a helpful feedback.

    I've done the exercises you recommended, hopefully I did a better job this time. Cheers!

    Here is the link:

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G-WAeBR3q4uB5L9xmwGXY52fcNxTMw9A?usp=sharing

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