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250 Cylinder Challenge

6:20 PM, Tuesday December 27th 2022

250 Cylinder Challenge - Google Drive

250 Cylinder Challenge - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1wYru7ZzJTnf2PJguKBeFidGCJpVrnGid

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You might notice it's been a long time since my last submission; between personal projects ands general life stuff, the amount of spare time I had to devote to my lessons has been lower in general, and there were even extended periods where I did no practice. If there's a noticeable drop in quality partway through my Cylinders in Boxes, that's why.

I'm fairly confident in my Cylinders around Arbirary Minor Axes, but it took a while to readjust to the stringent accuracy of perspective needed to produce good boxes. I think they got better with time, but some of them definitely got away from me.

Any critical remarks would be appreciated, as would any advice over how to outgrow any shortcomings this work has revealed.

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1:52 AM, Saturday April 1st 2023

Hi Mechacatfish, I will be offering some critique for you today.

First off, my major concern is with your line quality, especially in the ellipses constructed around a minor axis. Alot of these lines have a significant amount of wobble and shakiness to them. Every single line you draw in drawabox should be drawn using your shoulder, and the ghosting method. Draw quickly and confidently to make sure it always is straight.

Maybe you never completely grasped how to make straight and confident lines in the first place, or maybe you simply forgot after doing lesson one so long ago, but line confidence is very important. I would recommend re-doing the lesson one material until you straighten those lines out.

Aside from the line quality issue, your ellipses are well executed. You understand how to constructed them well and have a good sense for how they work in 3d space. There is one problem in the error checking method for the ellipses constructed in boxes, though.

In cylinders 167 and onward you forgot to draw the lines at the contact points where the ellipse touches the sides of its enclosing plane that extends towards its vanishing points. These lines serve the purpose of helping students understand how to better create circles that exist accurately in 3d space, and by forgetting them, it undermines the work you've done and the point of the exercise. Without the proper error checking methods, any errors you make in constructing the circles go unnoticed, and it limits the amount of improvement you can make in the exercise.

Because of these concerns I am going to request that you firstly review lesson 1, while taking special care to create confident, smooth lines in every drawing and . After that, I am going to ask for 70 more cylinders constructed in boxes, with all error checking lines included.

Next Steps:

  • Re-do lesson one up until the boxes section, and if your lines are still wobbily after that, do the rest of the lesson.

  • 70 cylinders constructed in boxes, make sure to include all error checking lines and make sure that all your lines are confident and as straight as you can possibly make them.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
8:49 PM, Wednesday May 10th 2023

Hi Orange. Thanks for your critique, and I'm sorry for the delayed response. I figured it was better to wait until I'd completed the supplemental assignments, and I'm a pretty slow worker.

You can find the new work at the same Google Drive link as the original submission under the names Scan 56-83.

I think my linework is somewhat improved, though still far from perfect. Drawing shorter lines accurately from the shoulder is quite a challenge. I am very confident, though, that I have at least followed the instructions for the constructed cylinders this time. (I wound up taking an extended break during my first attempt, and it looks like I forgot some of what I was supposed to be doing when I came back to it.)

Let me know what you think.

9:24 AM, Thursday May 11th 2023

These are a big improvement from youe last submisson, it looks like you have pretty good sense of perspective after all this work. The line checking method is correct this time, so nice job there.

You lines are looking significanty better, although I agree with you and think that aren't quite perfect yet. They could be much straighter. You won't get to practice drawing straight lines in the next couple lessons, because they require rulers for their assignments. Because of this, I reccomend that you keep up with your freehand line practice while you are working through the lesson six and seven material. You should be doing about 15 minutes of warmup exercieses before starting each lesson anyway.

If you having trouble drawing from the shoulder, just keep practicing it and eventually it will get easier, like working out a weak muscle. Eventually you won't even think about it, it should just become automatic whenever you draw a line.

Drawing straight lines is very fundamental to all forms of drawing, and its one of the core tenants of drawabox so its imporant to get it right.

For now, move on to lesson 6!

Next Steps:

Go to lesson 6, and maybe practice freehand line drawing while you are at at.

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