References are on the dropbox folder, which it seems is no longer accepted as a submission url
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4kjbdrc1u99lceh/AACK_fyTZ6ymy0UZC18skIVIa?dl=0
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While we haven't changed our system, the submission form does reject anything that it can't readily make a thumbnail out of (so basically anything that doesn't have the standard formatting that social media systems can interpret), so it's possible that a change was made in that regard on Dropbox's end. That said, we very much appreciate it when students use imgur where possible because it makes critiquing vastly less difficult, as we can see all the images at a large size together, allowing us to scroll up and down as needed, whereas many other platforms (dropbox included) only provide small thumbnails and require us to click through. So! Regardless of how we got there, I'm glad you included an imgur link to your submission.
Another thing I'm glad of is the fact that your submission is excellent. I'll get into it more of course, but at a glance you've demonstrated a great deal of patience and care, and have invested a ton of time into each step of the process so as to apply the material from the lesson, from previous lessons, and from previous critiques to great effect.
Starting with your form intersections, you're demonstrating a clear understanding of how to handle these different kinds of intersections, and how the various flat and rounded surfaces relate to one another in space. You are similarly applying the boxes in cylinders exercise correctly, being mindful of your line extensions so as to ensure that you're analyzing your convergences and the proportions of those ellipses in a meaningful way that will help you continue to hone those instincts as you continue applying the exercise.
Continuing onto your vehicle constructions, what stands out to me most of all here is that you're leveraging every tool in your belt to really focus on executing the work to the absolute best of your current ability. Each construction looks as though it was quite time consuming, and likely spread across multiple sittings, as you do not cut corners. Everything is consturcted with care, and you show a great deal of precision in how everything is built up with extensive use of subdivision and the other tools introduced in Lesson 7 as well as in Lesson 6.
Now I have some very minor things to nitpick on in order to look like I'm earning my keep here, but all in all I expect this critique won't be much longer:
When filling in areas with black, always remember that we're reserving that for cast shadow shapes only. There are cases where you'll find yourself tempted to fill in an existing shape with solid black, but remember that in most cases, introducing a new cast shadow will involve designing a new shape for the shadow, then filling it in. There are cases where you might end up filling in an existing face or shape entirely, but if you catch yourself doing that, it's important to take a moment to ask yourself about whether or not it's actually a cast shadow. So for instance, filling in the wheel wells on this car is not a cast shadow - rather, you're filling in that surface of the car, making it dark based on its orientation in space (and to help make the wheel stand out). There's no other form casting a shadow upon that surface. One area where this may be somewhat confusing is the interior of the cars, as this is a bit of a grey area. We treat it as though it's the cab itself casting shadows onto the interior, but of course this would not cover every surface, as there would be plenty of light penetrating through the windows to catch on those surfaces. But, for our purposes here, it helps us to understand the structures we're looking at, and we can explain it away as being a cast shadow in some manner or another well enough to let it through. As you leave this course, you're not going to be as rigidly controlled by the specific restrictions we use here, but do just be sure to ask yourself those questions when you catch yourself filling areas without necessarily thinking it through.
For the purposes of these exercises, where possible try to avid actually marking out your actual vanishing point. In some cases it may simply not really be feasible (like this P-51 mustang due to its rotation, but in this case just for the sake of the exercise it might not be a bad idea to simply not extend the lines as far. Reason being, this forces us to always evaluate the orientation of each line based on the other lines around it, rather than focusing on a relationship between that line and its vanishing point. We want to focus on the relationships between lines.
And that's about it! I'll go ahead and mark this lesson - and the course as a whole - as complete. Congratulations on this two year journey. You've come along way, and I wish you the best on where you choose to take your adventure next.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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