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1:36 AM, Friday July 30th 2021
edited at 1:40 AM, Jul 30th 2021

If I felt like you needed to work on more to develop a better understanding I would assign more, as mentioned I mostly just want to make sure you're not relying on one rate of foreshortening as a crutch.

If the 15 that I assigned are rough and demonstrate you need to work on them then I may assign more if I feel you need more time with them.

Until that happens however I feel 15 is fine. Once you have been given the go ahead to carry on with the course you'll be doing them along with previous exercises as warm ups and continuing to improve.

The point isn't to grind until perfection just display proper understanding of concepts.

You're doing fine so far, so don't stress about it too much.

edited at 1:40 AM, Jul 30th 2021
2:37 AM, Friday July 30th 2021

https://imgur.com/gallery/WP2SIHw

So sorry, I think I accidentally edited my previous reply and replaced it with that short blip.

In response to what you mentioned about the course and the box challenge. I did all but a hundred or so of these boxes in the past couple weeks as that challenge was one that I was interspersing throughout my other lessons back when I left off. Because of that I hadn't finished it earlier. Also also, to clear things up a little bit on where I currently stand... I left of last year at the end of lesson two and these past few months I have gotten community feedback on that then did lesson three and got community feedback on that and then midway through lesson four I realized I wanted to get more in depth feedback. I also was impatient in waiting for two agrees (on feedback) that never came. Anyways, I finished the 250 box challenge (approx. 100-150 of the boxes) in the past few months alongside lesson three and a good deal of lesson four. So, that's where I stood if that clears anything up. I understand your logic though and will proceed with redoing lesson two when I get the go ahead.

Thank you again for the care you take in your feedback and for your encouragement.

Best,

 Trizzle
9:38 AM, Friday July 30th 2021

No problem at all, glad you noticed so you didn't accidentally end up waiting.

Your boxes are definitely looking better here so I'll be marking your submission complete.

I'm glad you've enjoyed the course enough to not only get to lesson 4 but also want official critique. As mentioned before I will be asking you to redo lesson 2 as well as the others once you get the go ahead to move on to the next lesson.

This is because without us seeing current work we can't tell what issues are still present or not, as an example I took a look at your lesson 2 work quickly and your lines lack confidence so they tend to wobble. When looking at your work closer to the present like your box challenge submission you've improved and your lines are looking much better.

If I was looking at your old lesson 2 work I'd probably ask you to redo a bunch of line related exercises to make sure you're drawing confidently and stress how important it is, but that information is no longer relevant to you so It just wastes your time, as well as mine by explaining it and then waiting to see your redone work. By redoing it with your current abilities we can make sure your critique is actually focused around things you need to improve on as well as make sure you don't have any holes in your skill set when you move forward.

Anyways, that's the reasoning if you were curious at all. From this point forward it's all going to be current work so you don't need to explain your story anymore, just try your best and we'll do our best to help.

I'll be the TA handling your lesson 2 work (unless something comes up) so I look forward to seeing your work once you've submitted it.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck!

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:31 PM, Friday July 30th 2021
edited at 1:32 PM, Jul 30th 2021

Sweet, thanks again Tofu. Thank you especially for taking the etxtra time to flip through my old submission and clarify anything I wasn't sure about. I look forward to seeing how I've progressed with my next submission!

edited at 1:32 PM, Jul 30th 2021
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