Hello I'll be handling the critique for your lesson 6 homework

Form Intersections

-Starting by the form intersections I can see that you have had a bit of trouble with keeping the dimensions of each form consistent , which resulted in the whole set looking a bit off, keep in mind that it is better to keep the rate of foreshortening shallow and also try to avoid having some forms being too large and others being too small, as this breaks the cohesiveness of the whole set. This is something that went much better in the third page, however you can still try to fill in the page with more forms without leaving any empty spaces.

The intersections themselves are moving in the right direction, the only issues that I can see is whenever you have a cone, cylinder or sphere intersecting with boxes, I don't have the time to draw over your stuff right now so instead I’ll redirect you to this set of diagrams which may give you a better idea,https://imgur.com/a/Jjz7z7U, you can also find them pinned on the lesson 2 channel on the discord server. And lastly before moving on to the objects, try to keep your linework on the intersections confident, avoid any chicken scratching and keep the lineweight subtle, do not forget the principles of mark making even if you are now allowed to use a ruler.

Objects

-Moving on to the objects you have done well to avoid using multiple pens as you moved forwards, changing pens can be very useful for things like the subdivided boxes from the advanced box exercises but ultimately learning how to see through the forest of lines and using lineweight to bring forward certain lines is a much more useful skill which you can't really develop by switching pens for every step of the construction. By sticking with one kind of pen, we avoid redrawing lines that are already part of the construction, and end up treating every step of the drawing the same way, instead of thinking in terms of construction, followed by "the real drawing".

-There are are good deal of things to point out but I'll try to mention the most important ones only, but first let's try to explain what it is exactly that we are trying to learn during this lesson.

The main focus of this lesson is precision, this is something that we didn't worry about in previous lessons where we just focused on breaking each one of our subjects into its more primitive elements and we had to work with the outcome of our choices .For example we might have drawn the head of an animal too big, but that was not an issue as those mistakes didn’t take away from the things we learned by doing each lesson all the way to the end.

Precision and accuracy are two different things and in the context of this course accuracy refers to how close you were to executing the mark you intended to, but precision has nothing to do with drawing that mark, instead it is about the steps and decisions that we take beforehand to declare our intentions.

A good example of this would be the ghosting method, when going through the planning of a straight line we can place an initial and ending dot, this will increase the precision of our drawing by declaring what we want to do. Once that is in place we can draw the mark, it may nail those points, it may overshoot or undershoot, etc. The important thing is that prior to any of that we have used the ghosting method to think about each mark's purpose and how we are going to achieve it best rather than figuring everything as we go, this kind of approach is more useful for the kind of geometric forms that we are working with as they have different planes, sharp corners, and clearly defined proportions.

We can capture all of these elements through the use of subdivisions, these allow us to meaningfully study the proportions of our object by way of an orthographic study, after that is done we can apply those studies to the object in 3 dimensions. That way everything that we do is the result of careful planning, and nothing is done by eyeballing or improvising.

-One of the things that can help you the most is to try to give each construction as much space on the page as you can, ideally you may want use the full page for any given construction, this makes it easier to draw the smaller details of our objects and it also makes it easier to read through the mess of lines. For example on the remote controller you have drawn mere outlines for the buttons, which is not necessarily the best choice, as these tend to be more bumpy and have a definite volume. Instead you could have chosen to block them in with boxes that follow the VP’s of the initial bounding box.

-It is also worth calling out that some of your lines tend to be quite misaligned and do not converge correctly with the bounding box, this causes some of the object's features to look slightly off, like the button in the bluetooth speaker demo. This really comes down to spending more time to align each line correctly and you can also use two rulers to see how well each additional line converges to the vanishing point.

There are also some cases where your orthographic studies do not quite match up to the actual constructions, the best example being the headphone head, again it is better that you stick to the decisions that you have already made, and as mentioned in the last point try to spend more time and plan things more carefully, do not be afraid to make a mess of lines you can get the most out of this exercises by pushing yourself out of your boundaries.

-And lastly, When working with your headphone and the belt buckle, you may have been ever so slightly premature in jumping into those curving lines. As explained here, we can achieve a greater, more consistent solidity by first pinning down the specific nature of those curves by representing them as a chain of straight lines, or a chain of flat surfaces, then rounding them out towards the end. In all honesty your belt buckle still looked great and came off entirely solid, but this is still a situation where I would have liked to have seen you building up to that a little more, as mentioned in the lesson material.

Fortunately you still did a great job as far as this lesson is concerned. When you do hit Lesson 7, you will find that the challenges you face will be similar to what you've encountered here, but they will be vastly more demanding. You will benefit from continuing to follow the trend of patience and fastidiousness, taking each step in turn, and giving each construction as much time as it requires.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. Keep up the good work.