Hi hi! I'll be critiquing your submission for the cylinders! Overall you did a good job with cylinders!
150 Cylinders
I think the main critique for this section is that you should draw your ghosted minor axis through the ellipses, that way you can plan ahead before making the ellipses and hopefully make it so that the minor axis cut the ellipses into two equal symmetrical parts. I think having the ghosted minor axis inside the ellipses makes it harder to decide whether the ellipses that you draw is correct or not. You can see it here on the example: https://drawabox.com/lesson/250cylinders/1/stage1check
Other than that, I think some of the lines that connects the two ellipses would not connect, either it were too short or sometime missed the mark by a few degree. I suggest taking your time when ghosting it so that you could hit both edges of the ellipses so that they look connected.
Other than that, I can see that as the exercise progresses your ghosted minor axis was getting closer to the corrected one, which mean the purpose of this exercise was successful in making you uncomfortable at drawing ellipses and getting better at it :D
100 Boxed Cylinders
I think making boxes that is short and wide might make it hard for you to see the degree shift between the ellipses that are close and further away from you. So, this is a feedback I have gotten in the past and it happens when the boxes you make are more of a rectangle rather than boxes (one side is too long, for example cylinder 216). This would cause the cylinders to feel a little bit flat, as the angles made the two ellipses similar. So I think it's best if you try to make each side of the box more or less similar to avoid this issue, though obviously I'm not expecting a perfect box (even I can't do that), but it's something to keep in mind if you feel like the cylinders feel "off". I can link you to the original feedback where I receive this, it starts at paragraph 5 (https://drawabox.com/community/submission/56QGGA73). I'm not saying to avoid this type boxes entirely, but I think it's a bit harder to draw the ellipses compared to regular boxes.
I personally couldn't seem to see what you did wrong on the first 30 cylinders boxes, from what I see (in between the many lines) is that you seem to be trying your best to see if the minor axis and the convergence of all 3 angles would connect in a way. At the very least you usually got 1-2 angles of the convergence correctly, while the third times would sometime be way off. But occassionally, you get that perfect boxes that would have all three angles converge together. Unlike the previous cylinders, most of the corrected minor axis do go through the ellipses which :D
Conclusion
Congratulations on finishing this exercise! Overall, I think I'm pretty impressed with the overall confidence of your ellipses. I might request a small revision for the 150 cylinders by making you draw a bit more cylinders with their ghosted minor axis going through the ellipses. That should hopefully make it easier for you to find the middle of the ellipses so it can cut symmetrically.
Next Steps:
2 Pages of Cylinders, make sure that:
The ghosted minor axis go through the ellipses, don't let the minor axis hang in the middle as it might make it harder to cut the ellipses in half
As always, make sure the corrected minor axis (the one you did with a ruler after you make the cylinder) actually cut the ellipses in two symmetrical half.
Thanks for the detailed critique!
Good revision! Glad to see that the minor axis had gone through and while the cylinders isn't all perfect, I think you have grown the intuition for drawing it. Congratulations! You can move on to the next lesson!
Next Steps:
Go to the next lesson!
You're words really mean a lot!! Thank you!!!!!
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