250 Cylinder Challenge
10:26 PM, Thursday June 26th 2025
I'd be happy to get any feedback
Greetings, I noticed your work in the queue and wanted to critique it. Your drawings appear to be digital. Keep in mind pen and paper are required for this exercise. Please use these tools going forward. They are the best materials for learning in this course.
150 Cylinders
The first 150 cylinders look dimensional with accurate axes. Most of the corrections line up as well. That said few corrections are slightly off. Look at the rightmost cylinder on page “35/250”, for instance. The objective is to split the ellipses in half. However, the corrective arrow on the bottom does not split the ellipse and half, while the actual axis does.
100 Cylinders in Boxes
Your lines in this exercise appear smooth and exact. There is also evident perspective between your ellipse pairs. However, there is little convergence throughout the assignment. The issue is especially evident in the boxes. Their sides do not appear to converge; instead they look parallel to each other. A few of the boxes are an exception to this problem, including those on the “245/250” and “250/250” pages.
Next Steps:
Draw 3 more pages of cylinders in boxes (so 15 total). Should you have a pen and paper, please use those. Try a fineliner or a ballpoint pen, if the prior is not available. Make sure that the lines of the boxes converge. Then you should be ready for Lesson 6.
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