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9:17 PM, Monday November 15th 2021

Starting with your form intersections, your work here is coming along quite well. You're demonstrating a well developing understanding of how many of these forms fit together in 3D space, and are doing quite well with the various straight edged intersections, although you are still having some difficulties with curved surfaces, as is fairly normal for this stage. I've marked out some corrections here - you'll notice that I drew little arrows tracking the actual curvature of the forms in question at a particular cross-section. Thinking about the curvatures in those areas is what helps me consider how my intersection likes should actually turn through 3D space.

Continuing onto your object constructions, you have, objectively, done a pretty great job. Fortunately not so perfect that I don't have something to call out in order to earn my keep, but as a whole you've demonstrated a great deal of patience and care throughout these constructions, and the sheer depth of subdivision in constructions like the listerine bottle demonstrates such care and fastidiousness in your approach. Each and every little geometric feature was pinned down in specific terms, with subdivisions to carry each measurement across and build the final thing up steadily but surely, and maintaining solidity throughout the entire process. As far as the expectations of this course goes, what you've achieved with the listerine bottle is effectively perfect.

Now, while you do work with that level of patience and care for a lot of these, there are definitely cases - more and more as you progress through the set - where you cut some corners. That is to say, certain areas where a subdivision should have been established, but where you opted to skip that step and eyeball it instead. So for a relatively minor example, we can look at the side edge on this DSLR camera. You tucked it in a bit from the bounding box you'd started with, but didn't really define how far in the cut should have been made. While it feels minor, for the purposes of this exercise (where we want to ensure that everything is done explicitly in order to ensure that we're developing our instincts as effectively as possible), it is important to ensure that every little step we take is clearly defined on the page.

A more notable case where you took more of these shortcuts is this sneaker. Here you simply jumped into smoother, more curving edges too soon. Curving lines, [as explained here]() have an element of vagueness to them which can make them tricky when establishing a solid, believable structure. Your drawing came out fine, for what it's worth, but in terms of applying the principles of the lesson you definitely did skip over the important steps of fleshing out the structure using straight edges and more planar elements, and jumped right into smoothing everything out.

I also did notice that your plan view (the top orthographic specifically) didn't really line up with your actual construction. It looks like you may have mirrored it, which while not being a deal breaker by any stretch definitely would have increased the difficulty of the task, requiring you to do more mental gymnastics while transferring spatial information from the plan to the actual construction.

In retrospect, I just noticed your own comment professing to eyeballing things more than you should have - long story short, I most certainly agree.

Fortunately you still did a great job as far as this lesson is concerned. When you do hit Lesson 7, you will find that the challenges you face will be similar to what you've encountered here, but they will be vastly more demanding. You will benefit from continuing to follow the trend of patience and fastidiousness, taking each step in turn, and giving each construction as much time as it requires.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. Keep up the good work.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 25 wheel challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 7.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:36 AM, Tuesday November 16th 2021

Breaking down the sneaker into boxy forms makes a lot of sense, I'll be sure to keep that in mind for the curvier vehicles in the future.

The reason my orthographic view of the sneaker didn't match up is because when I flipped my left-foot shoe on its side to draw the shape of its sole from observation, the drawing I ended up with was the bottom view of the plane I wanted to draw. So I reversed it while transferring it to the 3/4 view because I needed a view of it from the top.

On another note, upon recently reading the page for the 25 texture challenge, I now know that that was something that I should have already started, but having read this page a little late, I have not started on it at all. I assume I should start right away, but when would you recommend I try to finish that for?

Thanks for the critique, as always!

and btw, of course the only reason there are flaws in my submission is so that there are some things that can be critiqued ;)

4:18 PM, Wednesday November 17th 2021

Ultimately all that matters is that you spread the texture challenge out, and not attempt to grind through it all at once. I'd recommend spreading it out over the course of a couple months, interspersed amongst whatever other drawing you do on your own - that is, if you specifically do wish to complete the challenge. It is optional after all, and is not required to consider the course complete.

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