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8:14 PM, Saturday November 28th 2020

https://imgur.com/a/HOjBXiA

I appreciate the critique! I will admit I was struggling a bit as I was largely ignoring the 50% rule until recently since I want to get as good as possible as fast as possible to advance as quickly as possible towards working professionally; I also had a 1.5 month hiatus where I did very little between page 1 and page 2 of the textured sausages due to burnout from this, along with other outside pressures. I'm now doing a lot more work outside the exercises related purely to drawing from 2d and realworld reference without worrying about construction in order to help with my visual library which is severly lacking, along with all my other issues. So yeah, the only thing I care about is honest criticism, so no need to apologize. I'd be more upset to be given the greenlight to move on when I'm not ready rather than take honest critique.

11:44 AM, Sunday November 29th 2020

Everyone wants to get as good as they can as fast as possible, but like you experienced this leads to burn out. You'll often grow faster doing 30 minutes of mindful practice a day rather than 6 hours a day and burning out by the end of the week.

As for your resubmission, your forms are still getting a bit complex as well as suffering from flat edges at times. Your organic intersection forms are much too complex and floating rather than wrapping around one another.

I'll be asking you to redo these 3 pages again, not only to make sure you show an understanding of what's being asked here but to make sure you don't develop holes in your skill set that will take longer to fill than if you took your time in the first place.

Next Steps:

Please submit:

  • 2 pages of organic forms with contours.

  • 1 page of organic intersections.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:38 PM, Wednesday December 2nd 2020

https://imgur.com/a/YB3ido5

Tried adding cast shadow near where the larger form starts to pinch slightly as well, feels incorrect unless the form is being pushed in fairly dramatically there

11:59 PM, Thursday December 3rd 2020

This is definitely a step in the right direction.

Some of your forms do get a bit complex still, and you're still turning them very sharply which leads to flat edges but it's an improvement over your previous attempts.

Your shadows do make sense here but don't be afraid to push them further.

I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 3, good luck.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 3.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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