Quinney

Thank you for this feedback. It is extremely helpful.

You have definitely identified a tension I felt as I was working through these concepts transitioning from the arrows to leaves and my 'stiffening up'. I will add the practice of drawing arrows at the end of my leaves as an additional part of my practice.

I definitely float in and out of pressing too hard and drawing too slowly. Often it is unconscious, and I won't catch myself until I've made more marks than I'd like. I think part of this may be a due to when during the day I'm choosing to practice. I will work to be more mindful of this and try to find a better time to practice.

Ellipses are currently what I would identify as the thing I find the most challenging. I believe I need to add more general ellipse practice to my warm-ups, and I will get back to drawing through them twice. I don't know why I quit doing that. As I look through all the pages of plants I drew (many that aren't included in my submission), my earlier drawings had them and it drops off as I went. I do ghost them, but I think I'm prone to just "going through the motions" of ghosting on my ellipses, and I need to slow down and be more calculated while I ghost.

I think what happened to my branches was a misunderstanding on my part. In one video I believe you were discussing how it's okay if you don't overlap to the halfway point every time, and I think I just took that comment too far, but didn't ever go back to re-reference the branch lesson like I should have to clear that up. I am definitely not happy with how most of my branches turn out, and I think this is just the advice I need to re-ground myself.

I think the cylinder practice would be a worthwhile side-quest for me right now. My pots/vases have usually felt off to me, and it makes sense that part of that is because I'm not putting enough detail into them. The cylinder practice would also get me some more work with ellipses, while helping me with the basic mechanics of pots/vases, which, as a I see it, is inherently the foundation of branches as well.

Thanks for the additional advice on filled black shapes. The one pot I filled-in felt off, and this explains why I may have been feeling that way.

I definitely want to take another go at some of these concepts before moving on to Lesson 4, so I may do another leaf and branch page as well as a couple more plant pages and some cylinders.

Thank you for taking the time to give me this this detailed feedback! It all makes sense, and I feel good about moving forward.