8:57 PM, Monday November 30th 2020
Got it, thank you!
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Jessie
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10:13 PM, Saturday November 28th 2020
Thanks for your feedback! I think I've been drawing too slowly and focusing on keeping my lines neat and precise at the expense of fluidity. With these new pages (at the link), I tried to focus on drawing the lines more quickly as well as actually drawing through my ellipses. Yeah, I misunderstood the branches exercise. And as I'm looking at these revisions (the tomato plant) I'm realizing that I drew those second branch segments starting a bit before the previous ellipse instead of at the previous ellipse. Whoops :(
Anyway, let me know what you think, thanks!
1:16 AM, Friday October 9th 2020
Thanks so much for the detailed feedback! Your comments are really helpful.
3:50 AM, Tuesday September 22nd 2020
Thanks for your feedback! I appreciate the tips! :)
10:59 PM, Friday September 4th 2020
Hi Rob, thanks so much for the detailed feedback! This is really helpful. I did find the ellipses particularly challenging so I'll continue to practice those!
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