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9:31 PM, Friday February 9th 2024
ok for your intersections you could use cast shadows. and you clearly aren't observing the referance as iong as you should. take carefull consideration on what forms to use to break down the subject to understand how its built an how to break it down into more efficient blocks using it's major masses
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2 pages off animal drawings. spend a lot of time into breaking and analysing and thinking about the referance on how it''s built. think about what your doing wrong and try to improve.
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