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250 Cylinder Challenge

10:59 PM, Sunday February 21st 2021

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Hi! It's been a real while since my last DaB submission, I've really looking forward to this challenge. Here is the second part of the challenge, I had to take normal pictures of it because the app I use to scan my work was messing up with the colors.

I enjoy this challenge, though sometimes, when checking mistakes, I felt overwhelmed by all the things that went wrong with my boxes and cylinders and because of that I don't know if I really took advantages of those mistakes that I was checking. Just to clarify, I don't mean overwhelmed like it affected my moral or like mental health (I can't really find the word), in fact, I'm feeling like I'm getting a little more confident with my mistakes!

Thanks in advanced to whoever is gonna check my work, I really appreciate the time you people take to critique others!

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11:07 AM, Saturday February 27th 2021

Hi there weijak! Overall you've done a pretty good job over the challenge, I'll try to mention the things I catched so you can keep improving, let's go!

On the first part you're doing a pretty good job with the cylinders, they're confident and you're applying the ghosting method properly, I can also see you understand that the ellipses on the farther end will be smaller and that they will have a wider degree.

A thing I think you might not know is that this degree of foreshortening depends on how small the ellipse is. So if a cylinder gets foreshortened a lot and the farther end is pretty small, the degrees of the ellipse would increase too.

You're applying the checking method of the minor axis properly so nothing to comment on that!

In the second part you're doing a pretty good job too, already on the start of it you were eyeballing squares pretty nicely, and the convergences are good as well, you're also applying the correction method correctly on all of them.

The thing that caught my eye the most is that you have a tendency to get the minor axis on the ellipses a bit off, so I think there's something that might throwing you off. I recommend you from now on to mark the major axis with dots before drawing any ellipse, that should help fix this issue.

The second thing I wanted to comment on is that your boxes have improved a lot, I can see that by the end of the challenge you're way more aware of the relationships between lines. But one thing I want to comment on that you might not be thinking about when drawing boxes, is that you can use the angle relationships and positions between lines to make more accurate guesses. Take a look at this, hopefully it makes it a bit more clear.

This is also related to this diagram, not sure if you have seen it before, but take another look at it anyways, you might discover something new.

Overall like I said you've made great progress, so I think you're ready to go on to lesson 6! I also recommend you to start giving a shot to the adittional boxes exercises on your warmups, specially the boxes on strings, I think you're more than ready for them!

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6:34 PM, Saturday February 27th 2021

Hi Elodin! Really thanks a lot for the critique, the truth is that you were faster than me; I wanted to do 5 critiques so I could post it on the critique exchange channel, though my rate of critique's and drawing has been pretty lowered because I'm gone from home for a week and also I think I overstressed my wrist and is currently giving me some pain. I'm using this week to relax a little and to implement some stretches (which are being really helpful) to get a better long run. If you know some good exercises or stretches for the wrist and forearm I'll be grateful to listen, I have found some myself but I figured you could have some more experience with this!

Anyways (sorry for that little vent), the demo you did for one of the cylinders really helped me to finally settle the concept; I think I played around the concept of using the relationship of the angles of the lines to guess how much convergence they should have, but seeing the concepts as you explained them I think it helped to finally click in my head!

You are right about my minor axis, I tend to do them a little off so I tried ghosting the major axis, though from now on I will try out putting down the dots, I think it will definitely help me out.

Again, thanks a lot for the critique and all the help you give out on the discord, sorry for the long reply, I'm so excited to being back to Draw a Box!

7:20 PM, Saturday February 27th 2021
edited at 7:30 PM, Feb 27th 2021

No worries! You've already done a ton of critiques so you don't need to do the 5 critique thing haha.

For the wrist thing I recommend to check it with your doctor as soon as possible if you can. For the exercises I'm not an expert, but I do these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdD7CgN5FGg&. I had some wrist problems too and when I went to the doctor they recommended me to get a wristband as well to use it when sleeping and it has helped a lot. The main important thing I got told was to stop when I get pain, so if it starts hurting just go rest, don't push through.

edited at 7:30 PM, Feb 27th 2021
10:27 PM, Saturday February 27th 2021

Okay! I was thinking about going to a doctor, though I wasn't sure, now I'm definitely going to visit one.

Thanks for the video and the advice!

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