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5:41 PM, Saturday August 28th 2021
edited at 4:08 PM, Aug 30th 2021

Thank you so much for the critique! I really appreciate how detailed and thorough it is.

My apologies for replying to this so late, in all honesty I didn't actually notice I got a critique (still new to DaB).

On the topic of my pointy ellipses, I've discovered my biggest problem is when drawing over the ellipse the second time. I tend to get nervous when doing that part, and it very rarely matches my initial ellipse. It turns out I've been rushing through that part in fear of them coming out badly. Upon slowing down just a little, and managing to relax my shoulder, I found my lines coming out less jagged and more accurate. I only figured this out about three quarters through the exercise, and they could definitely still use more work. Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention.

Link to revised table of ellipses:

https://imgur.com/a/S2f8Iu5

And thank you again for your time.

edited at 4:08 PM, Aug 30th 2021
2:37 PM, Thursday September 9th 2021

I'm glad you found this useful. I can already see your ellipses becoming better! So I'll be marking this lesson as complete.

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Move on to 250 Box Challenge.

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4:16 PM, Monday September 13th 2021

Thank you so much!

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