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12:14 AM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

Hi Elodin,

I am a little confused with this part:

"Nevertheless, you aren't drawing the spine of the forms before drawing them" (on organic intersections)

I checked out https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/organicintersections again and I didn't find instruction on putting a spine through each sausage form or in the example homework (unless you are referring to the side contours as spines)?. However when I watched the video again (on organic intersection) he did add some spines to some of the sausages but not all of them. So I'm not sure if spines are needed and if they are how to choose which forms have them and which don't.

Everything else I pretty much agree with and I'll work on your suggested exercises then come back.

12:02 PM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

Oh, you are right in that he doesn't do it to everyone of them!

They are helpful because they are a guide that helps you to allign the contours/ellipses to the actual axis of the sausage, but if it isn't required then you don't have to do it if you don't want of course, sorry about that!

4:25 PM, Thursday February 6th 2020

It's cool lol.

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