250 Cylinder Challenge
10:48 AM, Sunday December 15th 2024
This one tested my patience but I'm happy that I got through it.
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2:37 PM, Wednesday January 22nd 2025
Hello Fable! I'm Simon and will be attempting to review your 250 Cylinder challenge -this is my first review of this exercise so I hope the revie will be ok.
First of all jumping straight in with your first 150 cylinders you made sure to check the minor axis of your ellipses thoroughly and as you've seen I'm sure many of them are quite close to the minor axis you were going for so well done! For the variations of orientations it seems like you don't have many wide/short ellipses (like a near top down view) or with a very dramatic foreshortening so just keep that in mind for when you practice ellipses in your warmups :)
Also it seems like for some ellipses you draw over them 3 times, it's not like that happens on every ellipse or like you drew over them 5 times so it's no big deal just something to keep an eye on to stay in control of your ellipses' marks.
Moving on to the last 100 cylinders.
I don't have much to add here compared to the first 150, you drew the line extensions correctly which in turn helped you adjust your boxes to get correctly a square for where your ellipses will go and even though you can't get it perfectly every time which is normal your boxes and cylinders greatly improved through those 100!
And here it also seems like you took the proper care to actually draw the ellipses in a great variety of orientation so that's great !
As you keep practicing this exercise keep drawing the line extensions to improve even more!
Good luck moving forward to the Lesson 6 :)
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Feel free to move on to the Lesson 6
10:58 AM, Tuesday January 28th 2025
Hi Simonp, thank you for your feedback. It has been very helpfull.
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