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12:20 PM, Monday July 6th 2020

First of all, welcome. I hope you find this course helpful and keep enjoying lessons to come.

There is an overall theme in your homeworks - your lines are not confident. For example in superimposed lines homework, end product should look like a bunch of straight line going some degrees off from each other. But your lines look very wobbly. The possible reasons to why - and I quote the instructions of this homework - is that you're hesitating and not quite giving up control. You should perform one swift motion from your shoulder. At this point, you're not expected to draw a perfect line from one point to another. In fact you're not even expected to draw a line from a point to another. You're only expected to draw a straight line. Dots you put on paper are to only guide you and help you get muscle memory. If you remember from materials on the site, there are three levels of lines, and wobbly lines don't fall under in any of those levels.

For your ellipses and boxes, there isn't any other major mistake other than the wobbly lines. Even when drawing things like this that seems like require accurate lines, you're priority is still confidence in lines. Even when you draw a small line for a box, draw it from your shoulder with confidence, to gain some muscle memory. And if your lines are a bit off from the dots you put on the paper, you can compensate that with the lines you're gonna put after. But you can't compensate wobbly lines.

As I said, there isn't much more than line quality problems. For this I'm gonna request a revision - I want you to do one page of superimposed lines, one page of ghosted lines, and after you finish this two, one page of ellipse tables. When doing the ellipse tables, I want you to implement some of the confidence you got from doing the first two exercises in to drawing ellipses.

See you soon and keep up the good work!!

Next Steps:

I request one page of superimposed lines, one page of ghosted lines, and one page of ellipse tables. I want you to be confident with your marks you put on paper. Feel free to re-read the learning materials on the site.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
11:24 PM, Monday July 6th 2020

https://imgur.com/gallery/MYymuWV

Here are my revisions I hope my new confidence shows

6:37 AM, Tuesday July 7th 2020

These are a lot more better. My suggestion moving forward is that you make a warm up routine with some line and ellipse work. You'll also have plenty of opportunities for improvement in 250 box challenge. Good luck!!

-One minor thing. I know it can be hard to find things with the world ecents going on, but try to stick to black liners. There is an article on the subject if you want to learn why.

Next Steps:

Keep practicing your lines and ellipses moving forwards. Good luck with 250 box challenge!

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