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Attached are three more bugs. I didn't focus on texture too much since it was optional in the original assignment. The ellipse page helped. I had trouble understanding ellipses and contour curves in the sausage forms. I tried cutting a paper towel roll into sections; one confusing part about that was the curves face different directions which I didn't realize was a option until reviewing the sausages thst have neither side facing the viewer. Thanks for the detailed critique!

It's easy to overcomplicate things. I'll end up using a variety including props versus real life. For example, I used a fake pear and then a real pear for a project; both helped make progress yet now I've got to go back to the fake pear because the real pear is too complicated to fully render in color.

I wonder how it would be for a musician to learn from audio files alone rather than in-person live instruction; there may be something intangible missing. Yet, I'm also not going to do a posion ivy or wave project from life; it's too ridiculous.

Thank you for your reply. The diagram is helpful. I might conduct a experiment with a still life setup to try to make the projected shadow concept intuitive. I assume its difficult for this to connect to lived experience because we're usually in environments with lots of light sources. It's definitely not a concept that is coming naturally.

thank you for your kind words! My friend got a small sketchbook that she committed to filling out. She said it helped to fill out the whole thing. It was impossible to feel down on her art as a result because if she didn't like one sketch, she just turned the page until she got to her favorite ones ;-)

Hey, thank you for the critique. In the spirit of honestly, here is feedback on the feedback:

• I'm drawing from life rather than from a photograph which does seem to change the mental process some.

• Besides general incompetency, the texture issue is complicated because the same time I completed this lesson I completed a charcoal course in-person where I was told to do "slinkies" fast to get shading in. I am focused on this course's rules for this course. You all construct outside and then inside; he drew inside to outside using shading. I want to master both methods if possible.

• I've seen you mention that structures are too loose. I assume that means there is not enough construction shapes.

• I did consciously try to draw shadow shapes correctly, yet I get confused if you want all the shadow shapes. I don't know how to show a difference between a less visible shadow shape and a more visible shadow shape in this course.

• I don't think I ever fully understood degrees of ellipses moving through space. I bought fishing worms to practice and moved a cup around a bunch of times, yet it's not intutive yet.

This is so cute! I love your plants in lesson 3 as well.

I watched the lesson material twice and read it twice. Yet, I didn't feel like I was doing more than guessing until I watched the first part of this Peter Han video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiVxL9iLNGA

That video led it to be better, not perfect obviously, yet it wasn't just guessing.

This situation has happened a couple times in this course so far. It's almost as if one step is intutuive for the producer of the videos, and I need one extra explanation to complete the task. It's the same reason I need the Pioneer Woman's old recipes; she takes pictures of steps other people forget.

https://imgur.com/a/A1VzoWp

I hope the link works.

Thank you Rob! I'll implement your sugguestions to the best of my ability. I found the rotated boxes exercise difficult. Hopefully, these issues will improve in future work.