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6:38 PM, Monday July 25th 2022

You're doing better in a number of ways, but I did notice one significant area of my critique that you appear not to have followed. I had pointed out three points in regards to how you were approaching your additional masses, and the first of these stressed the importance of not piling contour lines onto your masses. I went on to explain this in greater detail, but you continued the same behaviour on your forms here.

If there's something that wasn't clear, then you should certainly ask - but given that you didn't ask, I can only assume that you skipped that part of the critique. I recommend you read through that part of the feedback again, and if anything isn't making sense, then be sure to let me know.

In addition to this, I am also seeing issues in regards to how you're building up the additional masses' silhouettes. This issue is not so dire - it's normal to make mistakes, that doesn't mean you didn't read/understand the feedback on that front, and I can actually see a number of places where you're applying it correctly - but it is still inconsistent and that suggests that there may be times you're thinking about it more actively than others.

As shown here on your moose I've highlighted a number of places where you're continuing to use outward curves in the spots where inward curves are necessary to capture how the mass is actually wrapping around the existing structure in 3D space. This kind of overuse of outward curves will tend to make everything appear quite blobby, and will make your masses feel like flat shapes pasted on top of the construction instead. That may also be why you felt more compelled to add contour lines, to attempt to "fix" this kind of issue.

I also noted a few places where you have somewhat more arbitrary corners - that is, places where the trajectory of that silhouette's edge changes more sharply, but without specifically pressing up against any other defined structure. As explained in the previous feedback, that kind of complexity must only be allowed to occur in direct response to contact with another defined structure, rather than out of nowhere.

Now, I am going to mark this lesson as complete, and leave you to apply the feedback you received previously - though I imagine you'll want to go back over it and review the points I've highlighted here. You are of course welcome to ask follow-up questions in regards to anything you're unsure of, but as the main things you'll want to deal with have been addressed, I'm going to leave it to you to continue practicing them on your own.

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 cylinder challenge, but be sure to continue practicing the points I've raised here on your own.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:30 PM, Tuesday July 26th 2022

By "not piling contour lines onto your masses" you mean doing this? https://imgur.com/a/M8aS3Sb

Okay, and I will try to make more sharper corners of additional masses.

2:34 PM, Tuesday July 26th 2022

Yes, that's correct. You're better off leaving the contour lines off your additional masses altogether for now, that'll help you continue to improve on the design of their silhouettes.

8:03 AM, Wednesday July 27th 2022

Okay, I'll start to do that, thanks for the help!

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