MrChungus

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    10:29 PM, Friday January 24th 2025

    Hey! Thank you for your critique! (sorry for the late response), yeah, I am trying to keep the converging lines consistency, it is something that i want to do intuitive.

    11:28 PM, Friday October 1st 2021

    I agree with you, the box section was very challenging for me, I found it difficult to keep the boxes rotation in an organic way, but its something that I am going to practice and improve in the way.

    Thank you very much for your critique sir!

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