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3:20 PM, Monday January 10th 2022

Looks like you're doing a better job of applying most of the concepts. Just a few things to keep an eye on:

  • Your eye socket shapes are close, but not quite matching the informal head construction demo, so take a closer look at that.

  • When constructing feet, you can start the main section of the foot with a boxy form, then add the toes themselves as their own separate boxy forms, rather than just trying to wing it from there. You can see what I mean here on another student's work.

Also, keep in mind for the future that if your work's been marked as complete, then you generally should not be submitting further work for review, and giving feedback takes time. If we decide that a student requires further revisions, then we do allow those to be included in the cost of the original critique, but that is left to our judgment rather than the student's.

The critiques we offer, out of necessity, must follow a fairly strict guidelines to ensure that we can keep up with our workload.

9:06 PM, Monday January 10th 2022
edited at 9:11 PM, Jan 10th 2022

Thank you very much, I understand, I just wanted to check myself if I had understood the points of the feedback, I will continue with the challenge of the cylinders.

edited at 9:11 PM, Jan 10th 2022
11:37 PM, Monday January 17th 2022

hello again, I'm doing the challenge of the cylinders. and I have some doubts about it

1.The cylinder axis lines have to be arbitrary? because you told me something similar for the box challenge.

  1. Do I have to add any thickness to the cylinder?

3.Is there a problem if some cylinder angles look similar? because I have to draw many cylinders it is possible that some angles will be repeated.

I'm sorry, I accidentally sent this text as a report before

12:12 AM, Tuesday January 18th 2022

We have a "Questions/Discussions" section on the website. While I do answer questions there fairly frequently, posting your questions there means that I do not necessarily need to do so myself, leaving me more time to complete paid feedback for other students. I have been trying to imply this to you for a while now, but in my desire not to appear harsh, I've answered questions that have gone beyond the scope of the critique you were chaining your reply to.

This time, I'm going to have to ask you to ask your question there, or on our discord server where plenty of people would be more than happy to answer.

12:27 AM, Tuesday January 18th 2022

lright , thank you.

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