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6:31 PM, Sunday May 3rd 2020
edited at 6:52 PM, May 3rd 2020

Hello, thanks for the critique again, I wasn't intentionally rushing through the exercises (as I have loads of time on my hands) although admittedly I felt I was going too fast through one page. I spent the last 35 mins on these pages https://imgur.com/a/ZMOwGSj sorry if they still have the error, i've spent ages today trying to perfect them but still can't get it right. Thanks!

EDIT: Sorry I've just looked at the next steps again and it said two more sausage forms, not two more pages. Sorry, i'll do those as well

edited at 6:52 PM, May 3rd 2020
7:12 PM, Sunday May 3rd 2020

Yeah, the point was for you to just focus your time on doing two sausages. It's entirely possible not to intentionally rush through things, but to still be doing it, and you're definitely showing a lot of those signs (missing aspects of instructions as they're laid out, for example).

Slow down. Breathe. Think and plan before each and every stroke. I look forward to seeing your additional 2 sausages.

9:29 PM, Sunday May 3rd 2020

Here are my 2 sausages https://imgur.com/a/DwTLNr9. Thanks!

9:32 PM, Sunday May 3rd 2020

That is much better. Now you can see the difference between taking your time with each individual action, and basing the amount of time you spend on a given task based on how much you have to do overall. It doesn't matter whether you're drawing a single box or a masterpiece work of art - a line is just a line, so you need to be patient and give yourself the time you need to do it to the best of your ability.

I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete, but I expect this is something you'll have to work on intentionally as you move forwards.

Next Steps:

Move onto lesson 3.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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