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4:44 PM, Sunday June 6th 2021

Hello! Good job on the redos! I think your lines are a bit better. The main problem with it is that I still think you might not be understanding the point of the exercise or just rushing a bit still.

The lines on the boxes of this exercise must all be directed to the vanishing point you declared in the lines at the start. Whenever you draw an starting dot and an ending dot for a line make sure you ghost to check if the line goes correctly towards the vanishing point. You can check this several times until you're satisfied. If at any case a dot is off, then just redraw the dot and check again. Only when you're sure start ghosting the line.

I'm saying this because some of the lines you drew are pretty off, the kind of off that you can notice if you ghost towards the vanishing point.

Here's one example with one of your boxes corrected. Still not perfect, lines don't match exactly the vanishing point, but hopefully it makes it easier to understand.

The rotated boxes is a very good attempt. Most of the boxes are rotating and you're keeping the corners between boxes close, so good job! Just keep in mind that some boxes you drew aren't rotating, so keep an eye on it on the next attempts you do at this exercise.

So before moving on I want you to do the exercise one more time. Make sure you check every line, and in case you find one that is going to be off, redraw the dots before drawing the line as much times as you need. Take your time and don't forget you don't need to finish it in one go, spend as much time as necesary.

Next Steps:

1 more page of rough perspective

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:20 PM, Monday June 7th 2021
edited at 6:43 PM, Jun 7th 2021

Hoping this is better: https://imgur.com/a/ih025w6

Thank you!

Sandy

edited at 6:43 PM, Jun 7th 2021
6:43 PM, Monday June 7th 2021
edited at 6:48 PM, Jun 7th 2021

I meant to sent you a crying face emoji!!! I pasted the emoji, and the text editor replaced it with question marks. I did not mean to send the "???"! That looks so passive aggressive, sorry!

Edit: Panic replied and saw there's an edit button... question marks are gone, ignore me

edited at 6:48 PM, Jun 7th 2021
10:26 PM, Tuesday June 8th 2021

Hello! I can see progress, but I still think you aren't following what I said. I haven't found dots from you that resulted from the thing I recommended you to do, which is to ghost towards the vanishing point and check if a line you're about to draw is going to be off, and if so, to redraw the dot.

I recommend you to watch this video and draw along a few boxes with her, so you can see how it should be approached. If you look at her closely, you'll see that she constantly checks if the lines she's going to draw are correct, and if she sees like they're going to be off then she isn't afraid to draw a new dot that she thinks it's going to be more correct.

If you're unsure about anything, like what it means for a box to be correct, or why some lines are worse than others, then don't be afraid on asking, that's why we're here.

After watching the video I want you to do one more page. Good luck and keep it up!

Next Steps:

-1 page of rough perspective

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:45 PM, Wednesday June 9th 2021

Okay, I think I figured out what I was missing after watching her video and rewatching the lesson. At least I'm hopeful that I've realized it. Was it that I was not drawing all my depth lines towards the VP as well? I realized I was only doing one depth line towards the VP. I did use dots in each submission I made, which is why I was getting confused. I'm not quite sure why I missed that, if that is the case, but hopefully this is more correct.

https://imgur.com/a/zalCoJj

Thank you.

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