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1:06 PM, Monday May 10th 2021

This is better - you're applying the correct steps for the most part, and your branches structures are adhering more closely to the instructions. There's just one thing that I called out in my original critique that got lost in the shuffle, and it definitely would have been very helpful to you.

In my original critique, I pointed out the fact that in a lot of cases you were drawing very small, and in doing so, you were severely hindering yourself. Drawing small, as I explained before, limits our brain's capacity for spatial reasoning, and also makes it harder to engage our whole arm, causing us to slip back to drawing from our elbows and wrists. All of this results in clumsier linework and can seriously impede the flow of those strokes.

Your work here still has just as many drawings that are fairly small, even when those drawings have loads of space available around them.

Now, I am going to mark this lesson as complete, but I expect you to put a lot of focus towards drawing bigger for the next lesson. Your focus is on executing each mark, and each drawing, to the best of your ability - and if that means that you'll be able to pack fewer drawings into a given page, that's totally fine.

Next Steps:

Move onto lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
5:09 PM, Tuesday May 11th 2021

Ah, I see. Thanks! I'll follow the instructions more carefully in the future. Just out of curiosity, a lot of drawing fundamentals focus on the shoulder. Does this change when people have to draw smaller things e.g. poses or characters? I feel like you can't use your shoulder that much if you are trying to draw an eye or arm or face, etc...

5:41 PM, Thursday May 13th 2021

Give this section from Lesson 1 a read - it should answer your questions. Above all, remember that Drawabox is a course that is focused on getting you comfortable with certain concepts, and with the various ways in which your arm can be used to make marks. The drawings we do here are all exercises towards those goals. It's not about teaching you specific recipes or ways of doing things - instead, it's about getting you familiar with the underlying ideas and techniques, so you can then choose for yourself what might suit a given requirement best when doing your own work.

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