You mean freehanding your way through the boxes? Yeah, it would be more fun and faster but you would have to deal with such a large margin of error that the exercise would become meaningless.
Remember, the goal here is to use these training wheels and useful techniques to improve your spatial reasoning skills and muscle memory all at once.
Speed and accuracy come later with mileage
See how he pools together clusters of cast shadows? There are so many nuances you miss with your approach to the exercise!
As long as you are aware of them it's fine though, try to be mindful of them when you observe your references!
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Try to apply these concepts on your own
I'll make it clearer. Your cast shadows are very thin and timid!
Most submissions I've critiqued have cast shadows that nicely wrap around the organic form underneath but because your cast shadows are too thin, they end up making the surface they are sitting on very flat.
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The previous revision is still required, cast shadows are a very useful tool but if you apply them this way you will only end up damaging your
Don't think in terms of the whole box, nor just lines. Try to think in terms of planes, how is this surface going to behave against another one?
The intersection should flow through both surfaces.
You did a good job on the lesson, but I have a piece of critique for the organic intersections' minimalist cast shadows.
You did a great job at conveying form through the sagging and thickening of the sausages but you missed a huge opportunity to describe the surfaces beneath them.
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Try doing again the organic intersections with a focus on cast shadows. Look for Uncomfortable's example homework if you catch yourself being timid with
Good job on finishing the lesson! You did an amazing job on those textures but I see you could have played more with the space between the arrow bends and their relative widths.
The cast shadows of your organic intersections are neat, they describe the other surfaces pretty well but I can see some of the forms floating around instead of sagging under the pull of gravity as they should
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While the organics may look a bit stiff in the last page, you have shown your understanding of the core concepts in the lesson through your drawings! Have fun with the 50% rule then!!
Replace the organic forms with cylinders and try adding cross contours on them, organic forms are less clear so it's easy to get confused.
Form intersections are like the rotated boxes exercise, it's normal for it to be difficult, what is important is that you become aware of its challenges and this time you can finally feel the struggle!
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Good job, you have come to terms with the core concepts of this lesson! Wish you luck on the next!!
Good job, but why didn't you add line weight to the silhouette? You lost a great opportunity to gain muscle memory and make your boxes more solid.
while there is still some degree of divergence in the latter boxes you are clearly much more aware of those vanishing points now at the end of the challenge.
Another problem is size, how can you draw from your shoulder when your boxes are so small? They should cover the whole page as stated in the lesson content.
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Good job, but try to work bigger
your lines are confident and smooth which is fine, but you didn't carry over these qualities on your ellipses which are pretty wobbly, especially your circles.
Your box section has several problems.
**In the rough perspective** your boxes are diverging instead of converging towards the vanishing point.
your boxes are not rotating, instead they are converging to the same vanishing point.
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while you did struggle a lot with the box section, the 250 boxes challenge is there exactly to help you out!
Good luck on your journey!
Congrats on completing the lesson!
Your first two sections are fine, lines are confident and smooth, with little to no fraying while you drew through your ellipses and got them snugly fit within the rows.
One piece of advice, avoid drawing ellipses inside of ellipses. it doesn't have much meaning when it comes to learning.
The most problematic section by far is the last, so we are talking about your boxes here.
First major flaw: convergence you are not aware of those vanishing points that's why in the last exercise some of the boxes look broken.
Second major flaw: size this is for the rotated boxes exercise.
WORKING SMALL IS VERY UNHELPFUL HERE, it would have been easier for you to work though this exercise with bigger boxes since your lines would have had more breathing space instead of overlapping each other messily.
Third flaw: checking this is something that you should be aware of for the 250 boxes challenge too.
Use a pencil of a different colour to check your convergence, it's visually confusing to use the same pen to do the check up.
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Overall you did a pretty good job, you will have plenty of opportunities to work on your boxes through the 250 boxes challenge!
Congrats on completing lesson 1, your lines show some fraying which you can work on later during your warmups but the main problem was the up and down arch in your lines here and there.
When you find your lines arching in a certain direction, simply add an opposite arch to the line and it will become straight again.
Your ellipses were a bit wild initially but ýou got them back under control within the tables of ellipses exercise and by the time you did the funnels they were pretty good.
The boxes section is pretty fine, your rotated boxes seem to be converging to the same vanishing point in some places but you are still mindful of them which is the most important part.
Good job!
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Wish you luck on the 250 boxes challenge!
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