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chiara

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    9:12 PM, Thursday November 4th 2021

    Hi! I will try to give you feedback hoping to be useful :)

    LINES

    They are a little insecure and shaky, especially the longer ones, also they don't all start from the same point. Take your time to take it easy

    ELLIPSES

    They are not bad, you manage to stay quite in the edges and I am sure you will improve over time.

    You have a little bit of difficulty in the tubes but it is about training.

    CUBES

    I really like these! All the exercises seem well done to me and you can see that you are committed, only in the last one you see that you have had a bit of difficulty as if some cubes do not visualize them well, but this too is a matter of practice and exercise

    I hope I've been useful! :)

    Next Steps:

    You can easily go to the challenge of the 250 boxes! Good luck :)

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    8:59 PM, Thursday November 4th 2021

    As he said in the lesson, you have to be careful to rotate the boxes and not make them converge in the same vanishing point.

    At the bottom right you managed to give that sensation of rotation, try to repeat it also in the other boxes.

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    8:55 PM, Thursday November 4th 2021

    Very nice! Maybe I am not convinced how you made the bricks, but that's just a detail :)

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    8:57 PM, Wednesday November 3rd 2021

    A thousand thanks! In fact, the organic perspective exercise I did it a bit in a hurry, or rather, it was difficult for me to visualize the various poses of the boxes outside my comfort zone, and I got nervous. Hope to do better next times! Thanks :)

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    5:09 PM, Wednesday November 3rd 2021

    HI! i try to give you a review on the things i noticed :)

    1. The lines seem pretty good to me, in the longer ones you have to practice a little more because they don't follow the guideline very much.

    2. The lines are straight so they're fine, but you haven't tried very long lines.

    3. From the first to the second page of ellipses you can see a nice improvement. I think having viewed and marked the first page errors helped you :)

    4. The ellipses in the rectangles look okay to me, and the rectangles don't look bad either.

    5. On the Funnels it seems to me that you still have to work on it, especially on the growth of the thickness of the ellipses, because in some lines they all seem the same to me. I also had the same problems as you, it's not an easy exercise.

    6. The 2-point perspective is correct

    7. The intuitive perspective seems well done to me even if you could have tried to make the cubes further away from the vanishing point, in any case it seems that you have got them right enough :)

    8. Rotated boxes have some problems. the final shape should look like a circle while yours is more of a square. If you notice the cubes of the central lines they seem to have no difference in inclination and therefore follow the same vanishing point. the boxes in the corners should be more foreshortened because they give the impression that they are moving forward compared to the boxes they are surrounded by.I hope I have explained myself well.

    9. In the organic perspective we see an improvement from the first to the second page, perhaps it would be better to overlap the boxes less but these seem ok to me

    I hope I've been useful!! By :)

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