Arcayl

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    7:13 AM, Monday December 11th 2023

    Thanks for the feedback! I do struggle quite a bit with ellipses in general to the point where the angle suffers due to me just trying to get the ellipse down without wobbling. I haven't found the sweetspot for speed yet where I remain in control yet don't correct it by eye as I go. I have plopped all of these exercises into my list of warmups, I'll try to melt my sausages more in the future.

    12:40 PM, Saturday June 3rd 2023

    Thank you, I'll add this to the ol' exercise pile.

    8:35 AM, Saturday June 3rd 2023

    I also uploaded it to the original imgur album now, forgot I could do that...

    8:22 AM, Saturday June 3rd 2023

    I checked the post and indeed it is missing the very first page, boxes 1-6. Here is the missing page https://imgur.com/a/AjFeLOE. I believe they were all present AND in order in imgur before I uploaded the album. I should have checked that 42 images were present at least in the final link. Apologies for that, thank you for the review!

    6:22 PM, Sunday February 12th 2023

    Thanks for the feedback!

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