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Thanks again, Uncomfortable; I always enjoy reading your responses.

Thanks again for the amazing critique, Tofu. I will pay close attention to the things you called out to me here. I do, however, have three confusions/doubts to enquire about if that's okay.

1. You mentioned outlining narrow textural forms, but I'm confused about how we can achieve this with the 0.5mm pens that we use here. May I look into using a thinner pen for these?

2. Do we always draw a minor axis for our organic forms throughout the course? Some examples didn’t use it and neither did I in my second attempt of the form intersections. Is it mandatory or is it optional?

3. How do we draw contour lines that run parallel across our forms and in other directions as opposed to the perpendicular curves we drew previously. What information do they tell us, are they also ellipses and where do the lines start and end?

Thank you again for your time and now time for lesson 3!

Ah, now I see. Your response makes it all crystal clear to me. I thought that using our wrist would be ideal for those tiny hatching lines at the corners of our boxes. Good thing I didn't do that then, instead I will do as you say and continue using my shoulder for the box’s hatching lines in my warm ups. My presumption was that the wrist was good for both: smaller details as well as for smaller strokes. However, even for smaller strokes, the main goal is a confident, smooth line and so we use our shoulder. It all makes perfect sense to me now.

Also, thanks for replying. It means a lot receiving a response from someone you respect and look up to. You're an amazing teacher, as well as an inspiration to me and many others!

Thank you very much for the critique! However, if I may, I'd like to ask a minor question.

Why do we use our shoulder for the hatching lines? Wouldn't using our wrist be better here (due to its precision) and should I still draw the hatching lines from the shoulder in my warm ups?

Thanks again and now finally time for lesson 2!

Thank you again for your time.

1. I will keep this in mind when doing the ghosted lines exercise in my warmups.

2. I think I understand what you mean now. I just watched the "how to draw boxes" videos by Uncomfortable and ScyllaStew. In the videos, they ghost from both ends, plot their points, then eyeball where they intersect and have the point of intersection be where we connect the lines together. If I'm misunderstanding something here, please don't hold back; I love to learn after all!

Thank you for your critique! If you don't mind, I have a few questions to ask:

1. You said the ghosted lines looked unambitious; I just wanted to clarify what you meant on that so I can avoid repeating this mistake in my warmups.

2. How do I use length to determine the direction of a line? Is this when a pair of converging lines has one line appearing longer than the other due to perspective?

Anyways, thank you again for your time and onwards to the 250 box challenge!