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11:30 PM, Wednesday July 15th 2020
Good job. A couple things you could improve:
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On the rotated boxes excercise, you didn't reduce the width of the front plane of the boxes as they turned to the side, which is why it came out in the shape of a diamond rather than a sphere.
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On the organic perspective excercise it looks like you stopped ghosting your lines because their precision dropped a lot compared to earlier excercises. Otherwise that one looked really dynamic and great.
12:24 PM, Thursday July 16th 2020
Thank you a lot for the feedback :)
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Yeah, I realized that myself but as recommended I did not make a second attempt at the exercise. I hope that I will improve at estimating the foreshortening in future exercises.
I didn't think one could spot whether I used the ghosting method or not, since I did indeed not ghost as many times over the intended line before making a mark with the organic boxes exercise. But thanks to your feedback, I will definitely ghost more before making marks in the future, thanks again :)
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