hancollinsart

Hi, thank you for the feedback. Here is a link to the five pages of revisions: https://imgur.com/a/EuncZxi

I think there are still concepts I am not quite grasping that I need to practice more but I didn’t want to go against earlier recommendations not to do more than the required page count.

I really appreciate all of your help!

Thanks so much for the reply. As of right now, the doctor said it is mild and not enough to warrant changing my work or hobbies for yet. However, they did say that I might need to decrease the intensity of both work and painting/drawing if it’s not better at my checkup in four weeks. In the meantime, they’ve recommended I do everything normally with the addition of the following practices:

• Buy/use ergonomic wrist rests for my desk (I use a keyboard/mouse a lot for my day job)

• Take frequent breaks every 15-30 minutes when typing or doing other repetitive motions.

• Use a wrist brace while sleeping or driving long distances

• Regularly do my prescribed PT exercises (these are the absolute devil and I officially hate tomato paste now, since all of my exercises are various wrist motions with 6oz cans of tomato paste).

• Take a prescribed anti-inflammatory for the next week

• Optional: Change my grip if I plan to still draw/paint for extended periods of time.

I’m hopeful that I’m on the upswing since my wrist/hand/arm already feels significantly better—albeit awkward—with my new grip, but I’ll closely monitor, see what the doctor says at my next checkup, and take it easy if necessary. I’ve also been doing a lot more pottery in my 50% time since that uses slightly different muscles.

Thanks again for the reply!

Hi,

Thank you for the very detailed feedback.

My revisions are linked here: https://imgur.com/a/BZHUZ7M

With many of the revised drawings, after I finished the core construction, I struggled with knowing the right balance of detail to add. For example, I know I shouldn’t draw every single piece of fur or spot/stripe otherwise the drawing will lose purpose and look to busy. I’ve watched the tutorial videos and read the page several times where Uncomfortable describes the importance of not drawing everything and focusing on the silhouette, but I still don’t know the right balance and worry that not drawing enough detail may make a drawing look unfinished. Do you have any other recommendations or resources for how to achieve the right balance between enough and not enough detail?

Also, I just found out I have tendinitis in my drawing arm and consequently need to change my pen/pencil grip from a thumb wrap to a more ergonomic grip. Over the last 2-3 weeks, I’ve been working on thisnew grip but I was wondering if this would require that I restart Lessons 1-4? Or, should I just continue incorporating the exercises from these lessons as part of my warmups and proceed as-is?

Thank you for taking the time to leave such a thorough review. Your feedback was helpful and, as I went through the assigned rework, I noticed myself falling into (and tried to correct) many of the bad habits that were called out. I especially struggled with keeping the sausage forms a consistent width in both the organic form exercise and with the insect legs, but hope they are an improvement from the first submission.

Here is a link to the rework pages: https://imgur.com/a/XQBT2aj

A few other questions:

Question 1 - I have already completed many of the pages for Lesson 5 and some of the ones that are done fall into the pattern of trying to fit too many subjects on the same page. Should I do extra pages for lesson 5 with only one animal per page? Or should I just submit what I have?

Question 2: Is it possible to remove the following post from my sketchbook (Drawing Prompt: What’s with all the cows?) - if this isn’t possible to remove, no worries at all. I just really don’t like the way it looks and it makes me cringe every time I open my sketchbook page.