Turq

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    7:03 PM, Monday March 24th 2025

    Try not to worry about what you're doing beyond applying the instructions as they're laid out. This exercise is ultimately about developing your capacity to estimate convergences (given a set of lines, being able to add another line such that it converges consistently with the others), and being able to negotiate that coming from different angles in order to resolve those corners that are dependent on edges coming from multiple directions.

    As long as you're adhering to the instructions, then you're fine.

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    6:47 PM, Saturday March 22nd 2025

    Do your best. Ultimately while I'm sure when it comes to those providing community feedback, ensuring they're ordered well is gonna be more meaningful. For the TAs, we're more accustomed to identifying trends and patterns across the set, which can make it easier to identify issues even when the pages are out of order (and since ordering is particularly difficult with imgur, while imgur also makes it easier to critique in other ways, we understand if the work is all over the place).

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    4:37 PM, Wednesday March 12th 2025

    In addition to the points the others have raised, there are two important things to keep in mind:

    • Students tend to be anxious, and that leads to their capacity to judge their own work being driven more by fear rather than objective observation of their results (especially early on). Combine this with the fact that they don't yet know exactly what kinds of issues are entirely normal and what is of greater concern, it's just not really a good idea to put a lot of weight on your own assessments. Your only concern should be on applying the instructions to the best of your current ability, rather than judging the merit of that current ability.

    • While official critique requires students to only submit when the assigned work is completed, this is both for reasons relating to the feasibility of offering the service at the price point we do, as well as countering the tendencies for the anxiety I referenced above. Our community discord chat server does allow students to post partial work, with channels devoted to each lesson. So while we don't recommend checking in for every page, it's a good way to confirm that you're generally on the right track by having other students take a look.

    In moments like this I recommend reviewing Lesson 0 (specifically page 3) to refresh your memory on how this course works and why, as well as the resources that are made available to you, so you don't accidentally neglect to make use of something that could greatly benefit your progress.

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Wescott Grid Ruler

Wescott Grid Ruler

Every now and then I'll get someone asking me about which ruler I use in my videos. It's this Wescott grid ruler that I picked up ages ago. While having a transparent grid is useful for figuring out spacing and perpendicularity, it ultimately not something that you can't achieve with any old ruler (or a piece of paper you've folded into a hard edge). Might require a little more attention, a little more focus, but you don't need a fancy tool for this.

But hey, if you want one, who am I to stop you?

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