hodohboboh

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    1:20 PM, Thursday March 10th 2022

    Hey! Sorry for the late reply too, but I hope you're doing better :}

    3:24 AM, Sunday February 6th 2022

    Thanks for sharing your experience, it helped :))

    Just writing the actionable steps here for future reference:

    Superimposed Lines

    • Draw bigger arcs and be a little less hesitant

    Ghosted Lines/Planes

    • Smooth and straight > Accuracy

    Table of Ellipses

    • Lift, not flick the pen off the page at the end. Should get rid of the tails.

    Funnels

    • Relax and don't press too hard on ellipses

    Plotted Perspective

    • Since planning is a large part of the exercise, stick to my usual pace. There's nothing wrong with that, and it'll get better with experience. It'll take a bit longer since I'm starting out, but at this stage it's important for me to take my time and learn instead of rushing.

    Rotated Boxes

    • Focus on keeping things snug. Rotation doesn't need to be understood at this point to execute this.
    10:58 AM, Thursday February 3rd 2022

    Done. Please have a look: https://imgur.com/a/Nfx28QA

    I'm also planning to go down the official critique route. Should I include this additional page in the submission?

    2:50 PM, Thursday January 27th 2022

    Yup! Agree with your prediction, having some time restriction would be good. Thanks for the help again.

    1:25 AM, Wednesday January 26th 2022

    Hi Monkeeboom, thanks for the constructive comments!

    Regrettably for myself, I've seen most of the points you've mentioned in some way in the lesson material. I thought Ive been trying to make my lines confident more than they are accurate.

    Need a second opinion on something: there was actually quite a large time lag between me doing the Rough and Organic Perspective exercises (about a month or so). I feel like the lines Ive been making on the latter is much more confident compared to the former, although there are definitely a few which were wobbly due to hesitating before completing the line. Largely tried to follow Uncomfortable's advice on confident linework. Disregarding the time taken to plan the line (definitely will try to cut down on that!!) Do those line appear confident to you? Or do they still fall short of the standard?

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