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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.

7:09 PM, Wednesday June 9th 2021

Alright that's much better! Yeah the problem was that it didn't seem like you were drawing your depth lines towards the VP. It seemed like you were kind of just drawing parallel lines instead.

The dots thing isn't about drawing starting and ending dots for every line. The dot thing I was refering to was that after drawing the ending dots, you should check if the depth line actually goes to the vanishing point or not, and if you found that it was off, that you changed the ending dot to a new one, until you thought the dot was correct.

Then, after all that drawing the final line. I made an image that hopefully makes it a bit more clear.

Anyways, like I said good job! I think you're ready for the box challenge now. You can use this dot thingy on the box challenge as well so give it a shot there as well!

Don't forget to do your warmups from now on, make sure you keep taking your time with every line and good luck with the box challenge!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
4:39 PM, Thursday June 10th 2021

Thank you - and thank you also for the image! Sorry I used up so much of your time!! I really appreciate your help and feedback.

Have a good day!

Sandy

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