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Lesson 6: Applying Construction to Everyday Objects

11:13 AM, Tuesday September 13th 2022

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  • I didn't do texture for the examples that I though it was too hard to make it work on.

  • I struggled the most with how to approach drawing headphones even when using boxes, it was not easy to place them correctly. There's probably a better and more consistent way.

  • I also noticed that my drawings were getting overly messy, even with my half working pen, so after a certain point I had to rely on guesswork since I couldn't see which construction line belonged to what anymore.

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5:59 PM, Monday September 19th 2022

Hi HFO1! I'll be reviewing your homework.

On some of the intersections, there are some strange things, like curves on cylinders that don't accelerate enough when reaching the edge, that sort of thing, but overall, they look pretty good.

As far as your object drawings go, I have to say that they look impeccable to me. You repeated some lines, and I'm sure that it was recommended to use ballpoint pen for this lesson, but besides that, the constructions are great, you subdivided a lot and whenever it was necessary; you chose a lot of complex objects too, so congratulations.

I had the same problem with the headphones, and arrived at a similar solution, however, I think we handled the headband differently. This is a demo someone made to help me with that, using half an ellipse to work with the headband is what really helped me.

I asume you used ortographic studies for things like the knifes and the detail on the little house, but I'm really curious about how you handled the spheric objects and especially that cart thing. I would've enclosed the whole thing in a box for starters and then I would've broken it into sections, but your solution looks a lot more elegant, and I'm curious to know how you determined the point at which the top section should start.

Also, I don't know if you do it already, but after a week of posting your homework, if you haven't had a review, you can go on Discord and ask for it to be included on a spreadsheet, that way it gets critiqued as soon as possible. After Lesson 1 though you have to make 5 critiques per submission to get yours reviewed, but still, it's pretty quick. I say that because I saw you uploaded this lesson a couple of times before.

Anyway, congratulations on finishing Lesson 6! Feel free to move on to the 25 Wheel Challenge.

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10:57 AM, Tuesday September 20th 2022

Hi, thank you very much for reviewing my homework! I understood everything and I'll try to fix those mistakes going forward.

As for the cart thing (it's an ash tray :3), I took some creative liberty with the approach as I was pretty confident it would work. Instead of using one box, I used two boxes for the two major masses that are present because I don't think one big box would serve a purpose in this case. I wouldn't gain a meaningful landmark with its subdivisions and it would also not help me when determining the position of the top part. The approach I used is better here because I have the knowledge that the ash tray can close and open with the pivot point being the cylinder in the back. Using this information, I know that the top box has to rotate on a circle (ellipse in 3D space) that has the center point on that cylinder. This curve right here is part of that larger cylinder. It's a consistent way of getting the relation of the top and bottom part of the ash tray correct. I eyeballed the size of the top box by guessing how much bigger it is in relation with the bottom box. I dunno how you would calculate that correctly lol.

For the spherical objects, I just placed them into boxes as much as I could. That didn't work so well in the second picture, as the object was pretty weird. I realized too late that my approach could be better here. If you look closely, you can see a triangle in there, I think that's the way to tackle the position of the "legs", but I added it too late here so it had no effect. I had to search up how to place a perfect triangle in a circle and I already forgot how. Anyways this was a complex subject, most circles/ellipses in 3D space can be confronted with this method from lesson one, but applied on subdivided planes multiple times (one for each edge/landmark of the spherical object, then connected at the end).

I was actually in the process of making those 5 critiques, but you were faster haha. I heard that you could also upload the same lesson as many times as you want (as long as you wait a week in between) from Uncomfortable himself, so I decided to try both ways.

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