it0

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    5:53 PM, Wednesday January 15th 2025

    Usually video consumption make us believe the content shown is easier than what it really is. Often, I've to review the video several times to catch those little details that make a difference when it comes to achieve the same result that's being shown so, my method is to follow the video copying the demo, concept, etc and take notes from it at the same time.

    That's my take, but of course, whatever you feel helps you will be the right answer.

    8:22 AM, Wednesday January 15th 2025

    Good mornign ThatOneMushroomGuy, thanks for your feedback as it's very appreciatted. I'll be working on the improvement points that you've suggested, specially on the texture since I'm really struggling to approach it the way it's shown on the course. But I'll keep pushing.

    Again, thanks for your effort.

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    10:23 AM, Friday January 10th 2025

    Hi there, my name is it0 and I'll try to give you some feedback. Overall I've to say you've done a very good job, so congratulations on your work.

    Your superimposed lines exercise looks very good, there's some fraying at the end of the line going on. Also at some points you can see that you try to correct the trajectory of your lines and therefore there's a bit of woobling but overall your line looks confident so practicing over and over as part of your warm-up exercises will improve your results with time.

    On the ghosted lines I can see confident lines, smooth and consistent with no arcs. In most of them it misses the mark at least on the end point, so there's still improvement to move from level to and reach level three. Make sure you ghost the line from the beginning until the end and stop exactly where you want it to finish. Once you've ghosted it several times, draw it with confidence in a single stroke. This can also be seen on your ghosted planes exercise where the lines are confident and smooth but you can see some lines overshooting the end point.

    For the ellipses tables there's room for improvement since you can see that usually your first pass differs from the second, again take your time to ghost the ellipse and place with a confident stroke. Practice this exercise to develop the muscle memory for further exercises in the upcoming lessons. This can also be seen on your ellipses funnel are well done. But overall both exercises are well done, your lines are confident which makes your ellipses smooth and consistent. Repeat this exercise over and over to develop your muscle memory to connect those two passes.

    For the ellipses funnel the only recommendation I would suggest is to increase the degree of your ellipses as they move far from the center. There's some of it going on the exercise, but I would suggest for you to exaggerate it, specially on the edges ellipses. You can see an example of this exaggeration here.

    Entering the boxes realm, I've nothing to say on the first exercise, your verticals are vertical and you're correctly moving your horizontal lines to the vanishing points. Thanks for shadowing the faces and impossing the edge of the box (I would suggest to imposed those lines without using a ruler, but you'll do this on the box challenge multiple times).

    On the rough perspective your horizontals and verticals are not that confident and straight. Remember that your verticals should be perpendicular to the horizon line, and your horizontals should be parallel. As in the previous exercises, remember to ghost those lines before commiting them into the paper, use your whole arm to draw them instead of using only your wrist. When drawing boxes it's important to start and finish the line at the points you marked on the paper. You're doing a great job extending the lines to the vanishing point. As you can see some of those estimations were quite off, but again, there's a challenge in front of you that will help you on this.

    Your rotated boxes perspective has come out pretty well. You've followed the exercise basis by establishing the vertical and horizontal axis, the spaces between your boxes are spaced consistently which can be seen with the hatched planes. Your boxes are rotating since you're moving your vp's accordingly and as far as I can see, all the boxes have been drawn, including the corners ones. Moving into the upcoming lessons your spatial thinking will improve, so it's a good idea at some point in the future, coming back to repeat this exercise and see how much have you improved over time and practice.

    And last, your organic perspective exercise. I loved it. Just, as in the previous exercise make sure you spend time and effort on improving your ghosting lines, push on hitting those spots that you mark on the paper. During the 250 box challenge you'll have enough time to think on how lines converge and how to avoid divergence when drawing boxes.

    Overall, as I said, this's a solid submission and you've demonstrated that you understand the concepts explained on this lesson. I'll mark it as completed and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Have a lot of fun!!!

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    8:51 AM, Monday December 9th 2024

    Hi Tofu, hope everything is all well with you. Thanks a lot for your reply and feedback. I agree 100% with it, specially with the organic forms intersections. I'll be practicing these in order to improve the results.

    Again, thanks for your effort.

    9:21 PM, Saturday January 20th 2024

    Hi Tofu, thanks for your feedback.

    Please find here the link for the extra 20 boxes with, I hope, their lines extended correctly.

    Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

    Best regards

    9:09 AM, Sunday December 31st 2023

    Hi Rob, thanks for your critique. I'll work on the gaps and move forward to the 250 box challenge.

    Have a great day!!!

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