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7:30 PM, Monday March 1st 2021

These are a huge move in the right direction. As a whole I'm very, very pleased with your results.

So I've got 16 critiques and a handful more revisions to take care of today, and I was going to just leave you with a bit of advice - but in the end I decided I'd throw together a very quick demonstration of how you could build the mane using constructional principles. You'll find it here.

In essence, you build up big masses to represent the bulk of the fur, laying them over the head as though you're piling sacks onto the structure. Then you add tufts of fur (as per these notes), being mindful not to overdo it. Make sure you design every individual tuft purposefully.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 cylinder challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 6.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
5:34 PM, Wednesday March 3rd 2021

Thank you very much :)

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