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3:32 AM, Thursday March 27th 2025

Hey Simon! Thanks for the unsolicited critique again! Greatly appreciated as always :)

Yeah, the overall structure on some of these (17, 4, and 21 in particluar) got really screwed up early on in the process, but I figured I'd push through anyway. I think your second point is also right, I was losing steam toward the end of this challenge and rather than take some time away and come back when I was feeling motivated, I pressured myself to grind through to the end because I was eager to start on Lesson 7. This was surely a mistake, and it's good to know that the drop in attention is easily noticeable.

And yeah! The sides of the wheels I really didn't know what to do with. Most of the time they're fairly featureless, but I could have at least included a few more ellipses to help indicate that the side bulged out too. Ultimately, I didn't think I had enough room (small ellipse guide and whatnot) to preserve the ratio of tire/hubcap while also indicating this side bulge, so I just left them alone for the most part.

You're so right about watching the degree of the interior ellipses - I should have been more careful about that. There were a few that I even deliberately chose different degrees since I thought it looked more correct, but of course this turned out to be wrong for the same reason that having "parallel" lines converge to different VP's is wrong. Just one of many lessons I learned through this challenge!

In my defense, I really was trying to stick to purely implicit shadows on all of these, but some of the larger tire treads were difficult to imply without explicitly outlining parts of their form. 21 was just wrong from the start, but for the rest that was truly my best effort. It's hard to admit for tires like 11, 8, and 21, but I really was trying my best xD

Thanks again for all the feedback!

11:26 AM, Thursday March 27th 2025

Thanks for the answer it's always nice to have a return on a feedback :)

For pushing through that's completely fine if you can go slower and keep doing your best

We're all different on that if you need a break that's fine for me I just end up working a 1/3 or even 1/2 as fast when i'm losing focus but i try to keep pushing through until the next day where I get more motivation but you know yourself best :)

For the side of the wheels if it's a didn't have the smaller ellipses on your guides then no worries it's understandable, but yeah if you're eager to start Lesson 7 careful with that cause with most vehicles the "outside" of the wheel is hidden for the most part and what you see are the sides! and it's one of the most recognisable parts of the vehicles so try to put effort into them on your vehicles

For the shadows yeah no worries most are great so just keep an eye on it :)

and happy if the feedback could help!

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