Hey GMan. Lots to cover here. Hit me up on IG and I'll send you voice message with plenty more info. Easier that way. I'm @shapecarver (I only have the one course available btw :)

No worries dude. Not your fault. The site is new and the Proko team will be optimizing the platform for a while I'm sure. Stuff like that is bound to happen in the early days. The important things is that you're doing the assignments and growing and getting feedback :)

These are pretty cool Nicholas. 1-1, 2-2, 3-1, and 3-2, are all very strong clear ideas. This is not a big deal but if I were you I'd attempt to keep you naming convention on your sheets a little simpler. The "1-1" "2-3" thing feels a little unnecessarily complicated. I'd recommend going with something standard like alphabetical, or numerical listing. Or just giving each variant a distinct name. The idea is for people to be able to point out your designs in a meeting and discuss them easily. Again, very nice work Nicholas.

Nice work Julien. Two primary points of feedback here: 1. The banana themes isn't coming across particularly clearly. 2. The shape are reading much more like folded paper. I think you'd benefit from taking a step back and spending some more time listing out your ideas, and doing smaller simpler thumbnail drawings. These are interesting, and I can tell you really put in some work on these, but they are also somewhat unclear. They lean more towards surrealism, which isn't necessarily wrong, but for the sake of the exercise I'd like you to focus more on clarifying communicating clear ideas with simpler designs. For now. You should feel free to..go bananas once the course is over as you attempt to find your own voice as a designer. Again, good job Julien.

Holy shit these are kinda scary dude lol. Nice work Callum. I like the hunchback direction quite a bit. Very fun.

I see Alec already provided you with some solid feedback Prince Xenon, but I just wanted to let you know that I think your pumpkin stalk horn idea is very cool. Nice work man.

Dang the Harvestspider centaur/drider is VERY cool. Wish I'd come up with that one. Very clever dude.

Much better comrade Auno. You make the motherland proud :D Seriously though, these are much better. I like huge arm archer. Have you read Murder Falcon? (If you haven't you should. It's really fun.)

Dude..nice shadow shapes Will. Seriously...all you guys are gonne be better at doing this stuff in pencil than I am at doing in on the pc :O

Bro..you're getting better. Seriously. Your drawings are looking pretty clean dude. Keep it up.

Thanks a lot Mark. I really appreciate it man. Thanks for sharing that.

Hell yeah bro. 80 ftw. That's the way to do it man. Puttin' in the work. But make sure you let those wrists have some rest every hour or so ya know? Seriously. It's this kind of drawing that helped me get a lot better, but it will take a toll on your wrists if you're don't pay attention to them when they get irritated. Nice work super hero name man.

These aren't bad Jacob. The point about animation IS definitely worth considering. However, at this stage in your development it is not the highest priority for me when I'm looking at your work. I think what you'd really benefit from at a very base level is a lot more simple gesture drawing. Many of your shapes and the posing of your characters feel somewhat uninformed by reality. To me, this just means that we need to spend some increasing your basic understanding of anatomy. Even a heavily stylized creature such as yours needs to feel anchored in some kind of anatomical or form structure. Whether it's more time looking at roots on a banyan tree, or more time understanding how the muscles of the arm come together, these kind of observations are going to have a big impact on the way you go about inventing forms as you are in your characters here. Overall, good job Jacob. I will likely be getting into this more directly during the next critique video which will be recorded this month.

Hey Ricardo, thanks for participating in the course. The answer to your question is yeah! However I won't be recording another feedback video for Assignment #1: Ideation for a while. Not until we've gone through at least one entire round of critique videos for the remainder of the assignments in the course. However I will give you written feedback for your assignments here on the site. If you'd like your work to be addressed in the next video critique all you have to do is submit your work in the assignments channel when we announce that it's time to do so. The next critique video will likely be recorded sometime this month. So you have some time. Pace is pretty chill while we're ramping up. Good to have you man :)

Right on Jean-Rene. These are cool ideas. Next thing I'd like you to do is to begin composing these characters together as group. A "lineup" as you'll hear me refer to it pretty often. Part of the point of doing that is to see how these shapes will relate to each other. It's going to help you see where you need to push and where you need to adjust the scale of your characters relative to one another. As is, I see what are essentially 3 tank class roles. That's not necessarily wrong but I'd like to encourage you to attempt to differentiate them further. I will likely address this more directly in the next critique video. I'll probably be recording that this month. Again, nice work man :)

Yeah Jacob. That part is coming up later in the course, near the end :)