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Jaybirdix

Basics Brawler

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    9:43 PM, Friday September 9th 2022

    Hi Lerin,

    Thank you so much for the thoughtful and thorough reply!! Line confidence is definitely something I'm trying to improve, and it helps a lot to know I should leave my mistakes as they are and not draw over them. You're right- the boxes I draw over now just look marred and wonky, and I have to remember to leave only one stroke for each side regardless of perspective issues. I also noticed coming back to the planes exercise my lines are more accurate and confident, so I am improving, boxes are just hard haha. Thank you for the note about the organic perspective exercise; I wasn't quite certain I was doing it right and in the end I was just messing around with it. I'll make sure I do it correctly next time though.

    Again, thank you so much for taking the time to review and critique my work, it really made my day

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    7:09 PM, Saturday September 3rd 2022

    I genuinely think you did a really good job. Theres the occasional arc and missed line, but because most aren't I can see that you know and are working to improve that and that those are just occassional mistakes. Good work!

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