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Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed reply. I'll figure out what I'm going to do and then try again, or not. I appreciate all of the feedback you've given me during this process.

Additionally, I'm really confused about what I need to do with the spokes. I drew what I saw. If I saw side planes, I drew them, and if I didn't, I didn't. Can you help me understand when I should draw something other than what I'm seeing?

I know it's not part of your role to encourage me, but I really feel like giving up at this point. I felt like I went glacially slow with the wheels in order to not rush or skip steps, yet somehow I missed the boat completely. I'd appreciate it if you would let me know whether or not you think I'm capable of fnishing this course based on what you've seen so far.

Thank you so much for your detailed feedback! I really appreciate it. I'll work to process everything and apply it going forward. Thanks also for answering my question about curves and ellipses. What you said is helpful. You are right that I was using a guide with a limited set of options.

I thought I responded to you, but I'm not seeing it, so if this is a duplicate response, I apologize.

Thank you for the feedback! Your explanation totally makes sense. I actually got a little confused when I was marking the boxes you're referring to, so now it makes sense why that might have happened. I will definitely pay attention to it going forward.

Hi, Uncomfortable -

Here are 75 more cylinders in boxes. When I started making all of the box ends square, my problem with not being able to draw the ellipses got a lot better.

The line work doesn't look as neat as I would like, but I definitely didn't rush this time through. I hope these are better than the last batch.

Here is the link to the images: [https://imgur.com/a/bbp5dF4]

Thank you for this feedback. I will find a way to get some video my arm when I'm drawing ellipses and send it to you when I have it.

I think your birthday is somewhere about now, so happy birthday! Hope you're getting to do something fun. :)

Oh, man. You know what I did? I was so concerned with varying the configuration of my boxes that I spaced out on the part of the instructions that said the boxes should be square. In 204 and 205, for instance, I was imagining looking down on boxes whose lower end was wider than than the top end (even though it was further away). I know that would never happen if the ends were squares in perspective. I'll be sure to keep them all square in the redo.

I'm still confused about 221, though. In this case I marked the minor axes with the short red line (it might be hard to see, but I used short red lines throughout to mark the minor axes). I thought the minor axis was always the line through the shortest/narrowest point of the ellipse. If that's the case, I'm confused about how it would be going in the direction of the blue lines; I thought that was the direction of the major axis which I marked with the black line going through the middle. If you could help me understand this, I'd really appreciate it.

In terms of the lack of precision, I really struggled to get the ellipses in the boxes correctly. I kept reminding myself to draw from my shoulder and draw confidently, but it seemed like I could never get the ellipse lines from the two times around to coincide. I've been practicing the warm up exercises including fitting ellipses into tables, but it seems like when I'm putting the ellipse in the box my arm takes on a life of its own and goes haywire the second time around. Do you have any advice about how to get better at this other than to keep practicing?

Thank you for the feedback, and I apologize for wasting your time with the non-square boxes.

Thank you!

This is fantastic feedback, and you've explained everything in a way that really helps me understand what the objective is and where I went wrong in places. I will definitely practice the things you've pointed out to try to make my animal constructions stronger and more 3D. Thank you so much!!