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2:14 PM, Wednesday July 7th 2021
edited at 2:18 PM, Jul 7th 2021

Hey Willythechilly!

Thanks very much for the awesome critique, I found it to be super useful and helpful :)

I wasn't expecting it to come so quickly so thank you for that as well.

After reviewing my previous work with your observations I see now that my biggest struggle seems to come from drawing lines more confidently, I noticed this quite a bit when doing the additional exercises you suggested.

I feel like I can see some improvement already especially with the superimposed lines, I still battled a bit with the plotted lines (an excercise suggested in another critique) but I am hoping that with time and dedicated practice this can improve.

As for the ellipses I tried to keep the lines to 2-3 repeats. I found that as I was thinking about this restriction and concentrating a bit too much on accuracy (exactly what you told me not to do lol) that the confidence of the lines suffered a lot >.<

I'm hoping that with some practice and muscle memory this will improve.

I plan to warmup with some of these exercises such as the ghosted planes to try and improve further.

Once again thank you very much for taking the time to review my work :)

https://imgur.com/a/2F0Zto6

edited at 2:18 PM, Jul 7th 2021
9:53 PM, Wednesday July 7th 2021

hey! Great work. I see some improvment as well.

Again these things take time so it is totaly normal to not suddenly fix the problems lol.

I think you can move on to the next lesson/box or whichever you choose to do.

The main thing i notice is your elipses. I think you are doing them way to slow. They are very wobbly and often break shape and become all chatoic.

You should draw them very fast. Ghost the elipse motion and then let the fineliner touch the paper and do the motion 2-3 times.

As you said "I think I focused too much on accuracy here and thus the confidence of the lines suffered."

Which is correct. You should get confident first before worrying about accuracy.

Obviously they dont need to be perfect. As you can see in the elipse section of the lesson Imposter gives an example of what your elipses "look like now",what they "will look like" and what your aim is for them to look like.

For now you want them to be confident and not wobble much. AFter that you can focus more on accuracy and having them be "perfectly overlapping" but that takes time.

Organic perspective looks better as well. It is difficult but you did well. Maybe try to push it a bit more but thats not a priority or anything.

Keep focusing on confidence and having straight lines on your ghosting lines. That takes priority over accuracy.

But keep it up! I think you are ready to move on to the next lesson. JUst dont forget these instructions/Tips and keep practicing with them in mind during warmups and when you do other dab homeworks and you will improve!.

Good luck!

Next Steps:

The 200 box challenge is the next step in general. I recomend doing that.

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