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10:27 PM, Monday March 11th 2024
Hi! I am Feldspar and I will be critiquing you work today. I hope you've been keeping up with your 50% rule and warmups while waiting! Lets start!
Lines
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Superimposed Lines: I dont see fraying on both sides nor wobbling. Good work!
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Ghosted Lines: Confident lines!
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Ghosted Planes: Solid Planes thats all i can say.
Ellipses
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Tables of Ellipses: On the first page some of ellipses are "floating" and not connected to borders but on the second page i see you fit them better so i suggest it is about accuracy and will be fixed through warmups eventually. The vast majority of ellipses are evenly shaped and fit snugly against the borders. Solid work.
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Ellipses in Planes: Some of the ellipses are wobbling and egg-shaped but i see you trying to put them snugly agains all borders and they are confident so this is the matter of some warmups. Remember confident but inaccurate line > Accurate but wobbly line.
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Funnels: Good funnels. Try to vary size and shape of ellipses through warmups and optionally change the degree with every ellipse.
Boxes
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Plotted Perspective: Nothing to add here.
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Rough Perspective: Solid boxes!
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Rotated Boxes: You have a eye for rotations! Solid job. Although you are missing some boxes and edges in the corners. I want you to draw, finish them and send it to me (Not a re-do, just finish the remaining boxes)
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Organic Perspective: You are leaning more towards the dramatic foreshortening and some of the boxes extended the wrong way. Also I'm not sure hatching was applied with ghosting method. I believe with 250 Boxes Challenge instructions, you will understand and get better with organic boxes too.
Next Steps:
I request:
Add the missing boxes and edges on your existing Rotated Boxes
I don't expect perfect, or not even a good work, just one that follows the instructions. You will post the first page you do, no practice pages, no grinding. I'll be waiting here for your reply so you can start your box challenge :)
6:36 PM, Thursday March 14th 2024
Hi Feldspar!! Thanks a lot for your correction and i'm sorry for don't do right the rotated box exercise, i'll do what you has say to me and tonight you Will have the exercise corrected, thank again :)
9:57 PM, Thursday March 14th 2024
I got it!!! Here you have Feldspar, i hope It is valid now.
10:34 PM, Thursday March 14th 2024
Solid job. Thanks for taking time and completing this exercise :)
About your reply, you done your rotated boxes almost right: your gaps between boxes are tight and consistent and boxes are rotating.You just forgot some far corner boxes and corresponding edges. These are especially challenging and confusing to draw. So your work was valid from the start :p I just encouraged you to finish your work. Through this critique the main porpoise is to make you understand what you should be aiming for, and how to approach the work. Accuracy will come with practice, as you work your way with warmups. Too many words "work" :z
Now that's out of the way:
Next Steps:
I give greenlight to 250 Boxes Challenge.
Add these exercises to your warmup pool and don't forget about your %50 rule (I will advise if you haven't followed it, you should go ahead and pay your 50% play debt before the challenge)
Have fun!!!
11:16 PM, Thursday March 14th 2024
Thank you very much for the correction, if you didn't tell me that I had it wrong I would never have noticed. I'm going to do the 250 boxes challenge and I'll continue with the warm-ups as you told me, I hope it goes very well for you ^^
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