pablitoarias

Thanks for the review, it's helpful and I understand all the issues brought up. Will continue to work on them. Few questions I have about the Cast Shadows technique:

1. Should I arbitrary choose the source of the light?

2. Can I cast the shadow on the surface where the insects are standing out that would be too much?

Pablo

Uncomfortable,

Very well delivered feedback. Thanks for the extensive explanation on what the texture is after. Sometimes, even after reading and re-reading, watching the videos, etc. I don't get what I'm doing wrong until is out down on paper. Your feedback makes it all clear.

Insects go easy on me

Good advice Tofu. Thanks

Did my best after warming up with lots of ellipses

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PAEYAGRLuYKFVfGQ7

Understand there mistakes you brought up for arrows, textures and there organic forms. Totally missed important aspects. Will read the lessons again and do the pages asked.

Thanks a

Tiltin,

No worries. Thanks for the link.

Lines

Your lines start close together and fray as expected. Good sign you are going for smoothness and not precision, even though they still look wobbly. That will improve with time.

Your ghosting lines are actually really accurate, have you done this before?

Ellipses

Also really accurate, but here I can see your focus on accuracy payed a higher price in smoothness. Early on it is better to be inaccurate but smooth, accuracy will come later with practice, without thinking much on it. For me it came hafway on the box challenge

Boxes

There are things I can say about your boxes but in general you got the point of the exercises and you do grasp the concepts we were supposed to get.

Congratulations and good luck with your 250 box challenge

Just want to add that the first intersection page is supposed to be only boxes. I would recommend you redo that one. Also, the organic intersections are awesome but missing a bit of softness. The "cucumbers" are not melting on each other, they look hard in consistency, not a big deal but just something to consider.

First have to say you are progressing in the right direction. I'm glad you made it this far.

can you send me the 250 box Challenge link. just want to understand why you still made mistakes on your boxes.

Also, the boxes and shapes intersections are not showing where the boxes and shapes intersect. Hard to tell you to continue without understanding of you really grasp the goal of the exercise.

I had to redo mine (before submitting) because i missed a key aspect as well. Try to redo the intersection exercise, the 4 pages but make sure you follow all the instructions. Whatch the videos and read the notes again and you'll see what I mean if not I'll tell you what i mean

You did improve through the whole exercise and congratulations on finishing. I have to say that your focus on accuracy made your lines suffer. Even on the last pages I see a tiny bit of wobble. When you do your warm ups really use that shoulder. If you still not comfortable doing that, go back to the lesson. I did a few times and suddently I was doing really straight lines, ignoring accuracy, and little by little accuracy improve.

You did get the perspective idea of the exercise and I am impressed how often your lines converge really close. Congratulations on that.

Tilitin, You said you did the whole Lesson 1 on paper again. Can you post those. I had a similar problem where I was quarantining for 21 days without paper. I did and official submission and was asked to do it all over on paper for many reasons. I followed the advice and I can see why, even though I had a nice USI pen on my tablet, it is not the same. We can tackle digital media later.