Before I get to the critique, I feel it's worth pointing one thing out. Generally when a student shares their work with a scathing self-teardown, it's normally a defense mechanism we use to shield ourselves from the sting of criticism. Not intentionally of course, but some part of us might feel that if we get ahead of it, if we declare our work to be "not really good" and full of mistakes, that we can avoid the negative feelings that come with getting our work critiqued. It makes us feel that we are on the side of the instructor, nodding along with the things they have to say in full agreement - rather than the one receiving the feedback.

In doing so, we can end up diluting the impact of the feedback itself - because after all, we already declared ourselves to be aware of how bad everything was.

So, for your own benefit, even if you feel badly about the work you've done (which is natural - we tend to be our worst critics, and we frequently have no idea what we're supposed to be looking for in critiquing our work), it's better to leave that section blank. Just submit your work, and let it stand for itself.

Anyway, starting with your form intersections, for the most part this is coming along pretty well, but there are a few things to keep an eye on:

• I can see that you're trying to focus your use of line weight specifically where the overlaps occur. That's definitely good. There are some places where you end up applying it to longer sections, like the edge of this cylinder where it got kind of wobbly. I can understand why you ended up applying line weight along this longer section, that's not really an issue. Just make sure that when you do apply it, that you're always employing the ghosting method to achieve a smoother, more confident execution devoid of hesitation or wobbling. This may hinder your accuracy, but that will improve with practice.

• Draw through all of your boxes. Right now you're only drawing the visible edges, but drawing those on the opposite side of the form as we do in the box challenge will help you better understand how that form exists in 3D space, and how it relates to the forms around it.

Moving onto your object constructions, your work here is actually very well done - which shows that your self-critique is deeply misguided, and you may be leaning into the urge to self-deprecate far too much. Because of this, I have one recommendation for you.

When you finish your work, you're inevitably going to be critical of yourself, but adhere to two basic rules when self-critiquing:

• Firstly, be specific. Do not be vague or general - if you're going to tell yourself that you screwed something up, or that your drawings aren't good, find a specific issue, rather than speaking in general terms. If a drawing's not good, then there must be something in particular about it which isn't good.

• Secondly, for every weakness you identify, you must consciously identify one strength. This will help you approach your work in a more balanced manner. It's very common for students to think that if they're hard on themselves, they'll learn better. Unfortunately, that's horseshit - being mean to yourself isn't useful, it just undermines your confidence, and if anything, it hinders your progress. Glad as I am that you acknowledged that mistakes are a normal part of the process, it really goes beyond that - find things you like about what you did. If you can't find any, then you aren't looking very carefully.

Going through your work, the vast majority of these show immense patience and care with every step of construction. The soap dispenser is especially well done - I particularly like the way that you handled the curves along the main body of the bottle, given that they were defined in more specific, straighter terms, before being rounded out towards the end. It's also interesting that you ended up starting with a larger box, then created a sort of gap between the outer bounds of that box and the object itself. This normally would be incorrect - since we try to avoid gaps - but you actually didn't leave any gaps. You cut down that outer box and created a smaller box inside of it, which was firmly grounded within the larger one. The result was that everything felt nice and solid.

The perforator was definitely a nice one too - while you commented on it being simple, it actually has a lot going on, and it's often these seemingly simple objects that are the best to help us establish our grasp of the material. There's no need to break off into anything fancy, and something as solid, believable, and gratifying as this is a great candidate for this lesson.

Continuing on, the depth of your analysis for the nintendo switch really paid off in your construction. I can see that it was frustrating, and it must have been tedious, but taking the time to pin everything down in very specific terms, avoiding any kind of approximation or eyeballing of detail resulted in an excellent construction with strong, well defined curves and even smaller elements that felt believable.

The only construction where I felt you did drop the ball, was the one where you relied much more on guesswork than anywhere else - the clothesspinner. It's almost not even worth discussing, since it's such an outlier amongst all the others, but most notably the fact that the forms along its top weren't really grounded in any specific way against the existing structure - no subdivision was used to find theier specific positions and such definitely had a negative impact. But like I said - it's an outlier. Everything else in this lesson was extremely well done.

So, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. The most important thing I've shared here really comes down to your mindset. There is nothing to be gained by giving into the urge to just tear yourself down. It's my job to critique your work, and I decide what is worth paying attention to, and what issues are minor oversights. Your job is to complete the work to the best of your ability, and to stand by your results.