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4:29 AM, Thursday November 5th 2020

Thanks so much for the feedback! It's awesome to get critique.

I wanted to put the action items in my own words; do you think you could confirm these are good?

Ghosted lines

Work on confidence over overshooting. Having overshot straight lines is better than wobbly ones that don't overshoot. This confidence will come from practice and using the shoulder.

Ellipses

Keep the confidence while working on making the ellipses symmetrical over the minor axis. Take more time ghosting to get better ellipses. I have a feeling this will come with practice.

Boxes

All parallel edges go to a vanishing point. It sounds so obvious when I type this out, but I think I forgot when I was drawing them :) I will keep that in mind in the 250 box challenge!!

Again, thanks so much!! I really appreciate it.

6:04 PM, Friday November 6th 2020

Yeah, these look good.

4:43 AM, Monday November 9th 2020

Great, thanks!!

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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.

In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.

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