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Thank you so much for your detailed critique

About the ellipses, I read somewhere that as rule of thumb the contour curvers with greater degree is the part away from the viewer . I had difficulty visualizing it since we know for a fact that ellipses with wider degree actually face the viewer and smaller degree face away, can you help me understand this better please ?

I definitely have the tendency to draw everything smaller.

I was wondering why some things looked flat but didn't know what I did wrong. I did struggle with intersections looking sketchy when they were smaller. Didnt realise the extensions on the forms need to be closed forms. do i need to draw really big to cancel out this tendency ?

Saw in the lobster claw demo that it doesn't need to be drawn through as long as how it wraps around is obvious, didn't notice that all of them were closed forms , so this feedback was of great help.

I hadn't drawn the forms that were facing away because the lobster demo didnt have the forms which were facing away.I realise i am hasty in gathering references i never found that one picture has enough information to know how it sits in 3d ,are there any websites that give a cluster of pictures for the same object in different angles ? . I will work on the points you mentioned

wow thank you so much for even taking the time to show me how the corrections look, that added so much to my understanding and for answering all my doubts. I'll work on them.

about my revison exercise , I drew the surroundings as flat shapes on purpose remember how the potato plant demo where they made flat rocks to show how the plant sits in space. so that only applies to rocks ?

Thank you for the thorough critique

Here are my revisions

https://imgur.com/a/XGXdta2?s=wa

my doubts about my previous attempt (please feel free to not answer if its too much )

i struggled to apply theverbal knowledge of the lessons on the exercises even if looked at them everytime i attempted the exercises. I'm sorry for adding the demo sketches i didn't think they would be critiqued too.

arrow . I was unable to determine where i had added the hatching wrong and how it should have been corrected looking at the arrow notes.however it might be because there isnt' enough lineweight some areas as you said.i would appreciate guidance here..

leafs-I see i'll work on construction . i wasn't able to determine where i zig zaged .Where could have i added the forking method ?

thank you for the tip, i will draw through them next them.

plants-texture looks wrong in the first exercises,i used to look through the texture notes every time i put cast shadows in the last few plants,was the texture correct in the last few plants ? the page said we can decide on the light source and have the cast shadows merge each other in the dark areas,only have shadows in deep crevices,i had tried to pay attention to the shape of the shadow too.

in the mushroom demo ,they didnt start with the minor axis so i thought it was ok to skip ,I'll pay attention to the minor axis next time ,thank you.

could i have applied branch or lead construction here? it looked too thin. what to do in the case of very thin structures its also difficult to use my shoulder in that case ? https://imgur.com/a/kbJxyA7 , i will enlarge it next time then .

with the flowers i found myself not able to stick to construction unknowingly sometimes https://imgur.com/a/HZb5OGE , my leafs ended up being too small here,by the the time i finished i noticed boundary was far away .

someone picks up a snack without knowing what happens to it when its put in water

Thank you so much for being so thorough . I will take all the feedback given seriously .

Thank you for answering my question too,there are no artists around my city for me to be able to understand how enjoying something feels like.i don't think i've easily enjoyed doing anything if i was bad at doing it. you were spot on with that i've had some mental health issues . I wasn't able to sleep in nighttime at all for months,currently i'm in my good week where i could sleep well . Despite the doctors

telling me that, i used to wonder is it me being lazy or cowardly in the fear of failing or is it a trauma i had/have. It's been a year since i'm soley trying to improve on art, i have passive sources to help me with life so all i had to do was art . To be honest i have a great respect for art, how people are able to tell stories through their work ,how they save a lot of stories from going unheard by say via comics

,but after being bad at so many things and not being able to be in the current moment and be devoted in putting in the work with anything .I dont mind what the job is, i just want to do it well. It's sometimes disheartening to see how vague the curiculum is of being self taught artist and how long it takes to develop them.

Feel free to answer after your break or not answer at all . I'm happy to be heard :)

Thank you ,I was actually worried ,that was reassuring .

Thank you for your kind input, here's the 10 additional boxes i drew

https://imgur.com/a/wE0Tb1v

I was also hoping to get your feedback on the description i wrote for my submission prior to this .

Thank you for clearing the concept for me . I understand what you meant now.

Thank you for the helpful critique .I understood everything you said apart from the organic perspective feedback ,about the gaps and divergence. Could you please help me with that ?