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Quat

Tamer of Beasts

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  • Basics Brawler
    5:16 PM, Wednesday March 13th 2024

    Don't mind this, I don't know why there is two of my reply

    Next Steps:

    Your next step is 250 boxes challenge

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    4:38 PM, Wednesday March 13th 2024

    The organic perspective exercise looks crampt , In your case the drawings are Comprehensive but you should keep an open eye for it becomes incomprehensible.

    But over all Your exercises look good enough for you to move on to the 250 boxes challenge

    Next Steps:

    Your next step is 250 boxes challenge

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    6:35 AM, Friday March 1st 2024

    Well done your branches are well made.

    as for the branches on the flower even though I would have preferred that you make them bigger but they are well done and you don't need anymore revision

    Next Steps:

    Your next step will be tackling Lesson 4

    Good luck

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    2:47 PM, Thursday February 29th 2024

    Hello there l call myself Quat and I am going to review your exercises for lesson 3.

    First of all the organic arrows and the leaves exercises: your lines look confident and you did a great job conveying the Gesture in 3D for both exercises, and even though some of the leaves have a lot of unnecessary lines but you did well.

    As for the branches exercise: I noticed that some of your branches look wobbly/drawn as if you were not sure how you are supposed to draw them, and that is more common in almost all of the plants you drew, Also in the fly trap plant you seem to have a problem in terms of spacing your Ellipses on your Branches. I am going to ask you to make another page of the branches exercise and I recommend that you act patiently when ghosting and pay attention to the distance between each ellipse.

    As for the plants before I start please add a number and a name for the pages next time, it would help the critique giver point out specific problems more easily.

    In the daisy drawing I noticed that you made the stamp of the flower too small which made the plant look weird.

    In the fly trap like I pointed out earlier the spacing between ellipses is a bit lacking . I would like to also point out that the drawing is really small, which is not necessarily a mistake but taking more advantage of the size of the paper is more preferable since it would allow the viewer to understand what's in front of them more clearly. I would recommend This video from Draw like a sir on the topic if you want to check it out.

    There is also a flower that I assume you forgot to draw branches for, I am going to have to ask you to draw draw the branches for.

    The other plants don't have noticeable problems and for the most part you did a good job with them.

    Next Steps:

    draw 1 page of the Branches exercise and finish the flower that you drew

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    4:18 PM, Saturday February 24th 2024

    Even though you still have some problems in terms of transitioning from light to dark, you will get better at it with practice.

    you did a good job with your revision and you can move to Lesson 3, or you can start the 25 texture challenge (although it is optional)

    Next Steps:

    Your next step is Lesson 3

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    8:04 AM, Thursday February 22nd 2024

    Thanks for the critique . What do you think about using Pinterest instead of imgur, I know that a lot of people use Google drive but I wonder if Pinterest would be appropriate for Draw a box.

    I also agree with your points, especially the line woobliness as it is something I always struggle with. Thank you again for the critique

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    12:22 PM, Monday February 19th 2024

    Hello there I call myself Quat and I am going to review your exercises for lesson 2.

    and from what I can see you did an excellent job with the exercises that you did and aside from some Flouting Ellipses in the organic forms with contour Ellipses exercise I can't see any problems with your submission

    Next Steps:

    Your next step is Lesson 3

    Remember to take your time and do warm ups, and don't forget to do the 50:50 rule

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    11:39 AM, Monday February 19th 2024

    Hello there I call myself Quat and I am going to review your exercises for lesson 1.

    First of all The lines section of lesson 1: The ghosted lines exercise and the ghosted planes tend to be wobbly, but seeing the Ghosted planes you did for the Ellipses in planes exercise I don't see any reason to make you redo any of them.

    Next the Ellipses section of lesson 1: You did well following the instructions and I don't see anything worth mentioning.

    Lastly the boxes section of lesson 1: in the rough perspective exercise you forgot to get a pen of a different colour and extend the lines to the horizon line I am going to have to ask you to fix this. also in the rotated boxes exercise your boxes are Far apart Which is why I am going to ask you to redo this exercise.

    Next Steps:

    Your next step is to fix both pages of the rough perspective exercise, and draw 1 page of The rotated boxes exercise

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    10:47 AM, Monday February 19th 2024

    Hello there I call myself Quat and I am going to review your exercises for lesson 3

    The organic arrows and the leaves exercises are really well done, both of them imply good understanding of how the objects exist in space. And the details on the leaves are very well made, kind of makes me surprised you hadn't done the 25 texture challenge.

    as for the Branches exercise, there are some mistakes with the width and the visible tails not only here but across the submission, but seeing how it is not that common I will not make you redo the exercise.

    For the plant construction before I start I need to point out that you Don't seem to follow the instructions correctly as it states that you should draw 8 plants and the first 4 are supposed to only be construction and with no texture what so ever.

    I noticed that in some drawings you have either tried to correct your lines or tried to increase the line wight and I am not sure which is true in the case of the latter you will get better at it with time and practice, in the case of the former it is considered a mistake (I would give a link but I can't seem to find it) in this case it is harmless but it can be problematic so watch out. I only saw it in about 3 plants (most notably the king oyster mushroom drawing).

    sometimes the small size of drawings come to your disadvantage , the mushroom above the king oyster and the succulent (I can't read it's name very well if this is not the right name it is in the page with the cauliflower and carrot and the page is dated February 17) the reason why I am pointing this out is because they are confusing to look at and hard to know if you did it correctly or not. I recommend that you watch this video from draw like a sir after you finish reading the critique.

    at the same page I referred to earlier I noticed a plant that you constructed poorly, your lines were blockier than normal and they also tend to be very woobly and the biggest problem is that you didn't finish the plant drawing, I won't ask you to redo this drawing but please keep in mind that even if you had a bad start you should always finish the drawing.

    In the page with the shadows you don't seem to be mindful of your light source for the eggplant as you didn't draw the shadow opposite to the light source implied by the shading on the right of the eggplant and you drew a very small shadow for the orange, there is also no sign of bouncing light. I would have provided examples of how these kinds of stuff are supposed to be handled but I personally didn't develop these skills yet. I won't ask you to redo this page since draw a box is a coarse about construction and not shading.

    Overall I think that you did a great job with your submission and you can move right into lesson 4

    Next Steps:

    your next step is Lesson 4 , remember to take your time and do warm ups

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    8:57 AM, Sunday February 18th 2024

    Hello there I call myself Quat and I am going to review your exercises for lesson1.

    First of all the line section of lesson 1: in the Superimposed lines exercise Your lines were wobbly for a lot of lines and I think that you could have used have used more of the space in the paper, but seeing how the rest of the submission turned out I won't make you redo the exercise.

    The rest of the lines exercises are well made and there is nothing to point out.

    Next the Ellipses section of lesson1: in the tables of Ellipses experience for one page some of the Ellipses are flouting weirdly and without touching any corners,and I might need to ask you to redo this exercise. as for the rest of the Ellipses exercises , you seem to have done a good job and I don't have anything to critique.

    Lastly the box section of lesson1: you have followed the instructions pretty well, but in the organic perspective exercise you did an entire page instead of dividing the pages into 3 or so sections, also your hatching lines make it very hard to understand what is going on, try to use less of them and spread them a bit wider next time.

    Next Steps:

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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