santapacman

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    3:10 PM, Friday June 9th 2023

    I... did not know they were marked NSFW. I've used Imgur a grand total of two times. Thanks for the heads up.

    RE hatching: I will admit to rushing there. I'll take that into consideration in the future!

    Thank you for the feedback!!

    12:46 PM, Friday April 28th 2023

    Yessir!

    3:56 PM, Monday April 24th 2023

    Glad to hear that helped! I'd definitely still like to see more variation in the size between your boxes (start smaller, end bigger) but the change in paper is really nice! Your lines look much cleaner now. Best of luck with the 250 box challenge!

    12:18 PM, Monday April 24th 2023

    Thank you for your kind words! I shall indeed keep working on my line quality, and re-read the ghosted lines section. This was really encouraging to read today!

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    1:49 PM, Sunday April 23rd 2023

    Firstly: Please do not use lined paper for drawabox!!!!!

    Lines:

    For superimposed lines, your lines do fray a bit more on both ends than I would expect, but otherwise things look good here.

    Your lines are very straight, with little wobbling.

    It does look like you went over some lines more than once, which is not something you're supposed to do in drawabox.

    Ellipses:

    Looks good overall.

    Sometimes you miss one side of the container you're trying to draw the ellipse in, but you're good about hitting the other three. Your ellipses are very smooth.

    Your ellipses should be touching in funnels, and they are not. I think it's also helpful and fun to increase the degree of your ellipses as they move away from the center. This was optional in the homework, so I'm not going to say you needed to do this.

    Boxes:

    The lines you traced back in rough perspective go WAY further than they need to. Stop plotting them when you get to the horizon, and the image becomes so much more readable. Looks like you did better on this on the second page.

    Your rotated boxes are quite good, although there are no guides on the outside of the spokes and your boxes are a bit far away from each other (the gaps should be narrower). It's also important to the exercise to use the sides of neighboring boxes as guides, and place the vertices of your new box close to the vertices of the old box. This would help with how some boxes (like that one in the top left) look out of place.

    In organic perspective, your boxes themselves look good, but you're redoing lines like CRAZY. That's no good for this course. You could also stand to vary your scale more from the start of your liune to the finish.

    Overall good, but the lined paper is a real problem that needs to go before you do more stuff. Keep ghosting lines, and don't repeat them.

    Next Steps:

    -Get different paper

    -Optionally, one more sheet of organic perspective without redrawing lines (and on different paper!)

    -250 box challenge

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
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