Storm01

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    12:53 PM, Friday February 10th 2023

    Thanks for the feedback , i apreciate it !

    2:42 PM, Tuesday February 7th 2023

    Thank you for the feedback :))) !

    12:59 AM, Tuesday February 7th 2023

    Hello again my friend , so what i mentioned about being organised , is more implied to how you plan things out first , if you look back to the course the drawing itself has to be organised , which means planning and guessing too which you did .

    Now it isn t a huge deal of that since even i made some mistakes to planning it out , which means making small marks , or points which would keep as a reminder where goes where . So this is more how you make it proportional and observing your sketch while you are working on it. Of course this remark wouldn't matter since i am working that way . I like to plan them in my head and while working i try to revision if it s following what i planned. Now you wont stay too much , just a few 10 seconds or so.

    The issue that was mostly to the rotating part and following the closer boxes to make a intuitive guess . But that will come more natural when you are finishing the 250 box challange which will come next. I am working on it right now :))) .

    Now i made a fast sketch for you , so i can show how you rotate them accordingly , and difference . Make a comparison between the link that i gave you before and the example i am giving you now .

    https://imgur.com/a/ewWxSNi

    I ve used so 2d examples too of how perspective works around rotating lines . On one and 2 objects too . I tried to showcase it there visually since is more practical. Btw the ray of vision is bigger , or field view , those are only the intersection of the VP to you , the field is bigger in that example.

    I hope i answered your question

    Next Steps:

    Either way , congrats !

    I hope that i ve helped you !

    Now the next step you should do is the 250 box challenge !

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    3:52 PM, Saturday February 4th 2023

    Oy ! So i will give you as much feedback that will help you in the future! :)

    I will start with the Superimposed lines first :

    1. You have some woblinnes to your lines , but for the start is ok .

    2. You have forgot one superimposed line page on the post ( you can post it here by replying the link )

    What you can do is making warm ups each time you takle any kind or drawing beforehand , maybe 5 min or so. It usually can take less , 1 page of super imposed combines with ghosted lines on one page just for warm ups is enough.

    Now going further to Ghosted lines and Ghosted Planes . I ve seen you are very tense drawing them , i sugest to relax more and try to use the upper arm and the forearm more then the hand , since it can leads to less clean lines. Is the same thing as with the superimposed lines , but on the ghosted planes please careful where you center the lines inside the plane , since it will be essential in the future. Again it is normal at the beginning , i ve got the same issue in the past :). So don't worry too much doing them , just warm up and in a month or so you will see big changes , doing warmups daily before drawing anything.

    Next one are Elipses :

    1. You are tense doing those as in the ghosted lines , so best tip is to find a ballance of having a very tense and a very relaxed hand . This will come with time and practice so for the start is ok .

    2. Funnels are ok with the tables of elipses so here the isn't much to talk about , there still are quite the same issues like i mentioned before.

    Now we are going to talk about Boxes :

    1. The ploted perspective are cleanly done , good job .You can go even further more , accentuating the close face of those boxes giving force to these boxes and adding shadow lines to it for giving it solid volume.

    2. The rough perspective is ok , but again the lines shows not enough confidence , so of course you will do the warmups each time you draw anything to give you not only confidence to lines , but to the drawing you are planning to make after. At least thats how i feel most of the time after warm ups.

    3. The rotated perspective it will need work as well with the organic perspective , on the rotated ones you need to be more organised to what where goes what and another thing is that you didn t rotated the boxes as it should. Here is an example of that problem https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg . Those are paralel to each other since the have the same vanishing point .

    Again this is just an example . You have to get the fact that this is normal and you shouldn't take as a big deal , since even for me this was quite a challange :))))) . We all do mistakes and this from the beggining was made for us to fail on this exercise , is just for us to understand that there are things that we still need to work on. On my assignment i did it well but it took me allot more work since is not my first time working on these.

    This is all the feedback i could gather , most are advices on what you go for , especially the warm up part. The only thing that i am asking is to reply the superimposed line page that is missing so that i would give you the next step which would be the 250 boxes challenge , which will help you imensely . You will see , is very helpful.

    Next Steps:

    Here you can put the page that is missing on the homework , if you want to go back to some of the exercises , you can share them here if you want additional feedback.

    I hope that i helped you , i hope i wasn't too harsh on anything . I want to help and if i was in any way you can tell me so i can improve on giving critique :))) . Have a good time!

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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