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5:39 PM, Wednesday October 13th 2021

Starting with the rotated boxes, it still appears to be unfinished. As shown here, you drew one face for one of the corner boxes, and left the others out. You also have a tendency to overcomplicate the basic squares we use in this step to define the extremities of each axis. Do not deviate from the instructions.

To your point about the framing/division of the page for the rough/organic perspective boxes, I get that the steps can be tedious, but you are not in a position to choose which instructions in this course to follow, and which to ignore. All you can do is your best to consciously follow those instructions to the letter. You're not wrong that drawing bigger certainly helps, but in the design of this exercise, I've found it to be more beneficial to have students tackle this exercise in this way despite that. Again - it comes down to following those instructions and not deviating from them, because you don't know where I've made conscious choices towards certain ends.

You are indeed applying the line extensions for the rough perspective boxes correctly now, so they're certainly looking better. I can see a slight tendency to have some lines fall short, but as a whole the execution of your marks is notably more confident here than the ghosted planes, which does still suggest a step in the right direction. Undershooting usually comes from a fear of overshooting, choosing one issue over the other. For now, I'd lean more towards overshooting, and gradually reel it back with continued practice.

So, from where I'm sitting, I'll call the rough perspective boxes complete, but since you haven't yet completed the rotated boxes in their entirety, I'm going to ask for another one of those. I can see that your execution of the exercise is actually pretty good towards the center (you're maintaining even spacing and using neighbouring edges as hints for new edges quite well), but this tends to fall apart more as you reach those corners. It's not uncommon for students to lose motivation when things start to fall apart, and in turn, to end up stopping prematurely as a result of that loss of motivation.

Ultimately you are not a creature who acts purely on motivation, however. You are human, and can choose to complete the task even if everything is falling apart around you. Make those conscious choices, and see it through, following those instructions as closely as you can and allowing the results to come out as they wish.

Next Steps:

One more page of rotated boxes.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:50 AM, Friday October 15th 2021

https://imgur.com/a/kW7zmim

This time I have tried to follow the directions as much as possible. The lines do got a bit past where they should go instead of falling short of where they should go.

Sadly things still aren't aligned with the Cross I had draw initally. I tried to keep things together towards the end but, things still looks 'wobbly'.

I think the boxes in general look slightly better this time.

I will follow through with the exercises more pricesily in the future.

12:50 PM, Friday October 15th 2021

In my last round of feedback, I pointed out two main issues (specifically in this diagram drawn on top of your previous work):

  • You were not drawing the corner boxes

  • You were making the "extremity" boxes (step 3) more complicated than instructed - all you're asked for is a simple basic square.

These two issues are still present. While you're no longer trying to play with the perspective of those extremity boxes, you're still drawing a complete box when only a square is requested. In regards to the corner boxes, once again they're not there.

So, here are the same issues shown on your latest work. At this point, I'm really focusing a lot less on the quality of your work, and more on whether or not you're following the instructions. I suspect that because you're still heavily focusing on quality of the end result, you have a tendency to forget the specific things I'm calling out.

If you're not already, I highly recommend both reading through my feedback immediately before doing the work (so it's fresh in your mind), and immediately after completing your work (to check if you missed anything).

Next Steps:

1 more page of rotated boxes.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:54 AM, Thursday October 21st 2021

https://imgur.com/a/gdBrFXG

Yes, unfortunate in the previous attempts I was focus on the qaulity of the work. I also seem to have negelected the corner boxes in them. I was attempting to make the boxes obey a sphere; this time I tried to follow the exercise as close as possible.

My apologies; I will try to follow along as best I can from this point onward.

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