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3:56 AM, Tuesday September 8th 2020

Looks like you didn't fully understand the plotted perspective exercise.

First, you draw a vertical line. Then, using a ruler, you draw the whole line, from each viewpoint, to both ends of that vertical line. If you don't want it to look too messy, draw the convergence lines (the ones that go from the vertices to the viewpoint) with a pencil and use a pen only on the box proper.

On the table of ellipses, they look much better than in the original submission. The weird part is on the bottom right, there's a lot of overlap between them.

On the funnels, you should've used a ruler or something to draw perfectly straight lines in the middle of those arcs. They are mostly well contained within the borders, which is good.

1:04 PM, Wednesday September 9th 2020
edited at 1:05 PM, Sep 9th 2020

I've redone the funnel using my french curve and a ruler for the axis as you advised me to do. It looks better.

https://imgur.com/gallery/QZgJaH9

Could you please also give me your advise on the organic perspective exercice? I feel that some of my boxes looks strange.

Thanks for all your feedback. It really helps.

edited at 1:05 PM, Sep 9th 2020
5:24 PM, Wednesday September 9th 2020

Those funnel ellipses look good. You could have experimented with wider gaps and thinner ellipses, but that's good.

There is a lot of scratching on your lines on the organic perspective and rotated boxes.

You forgot to draw the full boxes on the rotated boxes, many don't have a back face. There was no need to do the exercise twice.

The thing with organic perspective is that it looks like you're just compacting them, making them shorter, so to speak. There was no need to draw them fully in this exercise, only the front, "visible" faces.

Next Steps:

Rotated Boxes and Organic Perspective, this time with zero scratching over any lines.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
11:25 AM, Tuesday September 22nd 2020

Thanks for your remarks. I'm happy to get noticed that my ellipses got better because

in my first submission, I was one of the main criticism.

Here are new pics for the plotted perspective and rough perspective.

https://imgur.com/gallery/gKNIQU5

I've also redone an organic perspective and tried to leave the inside of the box unseen as in example and I you told me in your last message.

About scratching, I'll use a new pen with a new tip in my next submissions. I've started

draw a box a month and use only 3 different pens and haven't thrown them (yet?)

so may be the tip is starting to get old. Can an old tip can create scratching?

A always thanks you remarks!

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