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2:43 PM, Wednesday May 25th 2022

Welcome back! Solarlily, I'll be critiquing your revision now.

Organic forms.

For the ellipses variant of this exercise, You've done pretty good,

you're trying your best to make sure that the ellipses degrees are different and gave the illusion of them turning in 3d space,

I think your organic forms would be better if you gave them poles Like this because it gave the viewer the information about whether or not the form is facing toward or away from the viewer.

Here is a picture of a bit more advanced version from the official Drawabox discord server https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/368871002584907776/867744968432549928/QTEqgJa_1.png?width=618&height=601

For the contour variant of this exercise, Always remember that the degree shift is still in effect here. (Take a look at the advanced version picture i send you above.)

For the sausages themselves, Try your best to not make them a bit too elongated or misshaped, https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage although this isn't that big of a deal (Since you seem to be getting quite great already) It might still be a good idea to take notice of it.

Form Intersection.

Although this is not stuff that i usually mentioned, I think it would be a good idea not to use colored pen, Unless the instruction clearly stated to use it.

Now, For your boxes they seem to have quite a clear diverging lines, As usual i would advise that you should get 250 boxes challenge. marked as completed first, before proceeding onward to make sure you're not missing any important lesson content.

For the meat and potatoes of the exercises, Is for you to draw form resembling the same scene, Which i think you've done quite good for the lesson, https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/8/stretched i will still provide this link, Because some of your form felt a bit stretched sometimes, but i think this part is quite ok from now on.

Organic intersection

The biggest thing i've saw here is that, You're not drawing through your forms. if you won't draw through your form, it'll be harder to grasp the spatial reasoning skill that the course is meant to teach you

Secondly, For organic intersection, we don't use ellipses, We use contour lines, make sure to try your best and follow instruction to the letter.

Thirdly and lastly, Some of your form felt a bit too complex for the exercises always remember to keep things simple, so the illusion can be conveyed much more effectively https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/9/complicated

https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/9/shadows

9:57 AM, Thursday May 26th 2022

Thank you DoctorMein! I will look into the links and practice them. I had done the 250 box challenge right after lesson 1. Below is the link to it. Once again thanks for reviewing!!!

https://imgur.com/a/pnBgQHn

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