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7:52 PM, Thursday February 6th 2020

Good job on doing the revisions! you've definitely stopped repeating lines, which is an improvement, but you are still drawing wobbly lines, so I wanna make 2 things clear.

The first is that, like I said, in the drawabox lessons, you should always aim for confident lines, no matter how inaccurate they are, as you can see here

There, you got 2 lines and 2 ellipses. The left ones are better than the right ones, why? Because they are confident . No matter how accurate a line is, if it has wobble, a confident line is always going to be better than it. No matter how off it is and no matter how far it overshoots or undershoots.

Another point I wanna make is rushing. I think your lines were on the form intersections better than most of the ones here on confidence and overshooting, so I feel you might be rushing a bit. Don't be afraid of ghosting as much as necessary. Ghost until you feel you have a confident motion. Even ghosting 10 times isn't an exaggeration, ghost as much as you need to, and do your best on each mark.

That being said, I saw you got some revisions to do on your lesson 1 submission, so I recommend you to do them before attempting the last pages I'm gonna ask of you. Your confidence has definitely improved on your contour organic forms, though they are still wobbly on your organic ellipses and in the forms intersections. Like I said, aim for the ellipses to be as confident as you can make them, accuracy is secondary, so don't worry about it for now.

Next Steps:

So, the last thing I'm asking is:

-1 page of organic forms with ellipses

-1 page of form intersections

Do both without rushing, doing your best on your mark, and as confident as you can make them. Good luck, and keep it up!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:57 PM, Monday February 24th 2020

Here is the work: https://imgur.com/a/EcUZljo.

10:01 PM, Monday February 24th 2020

Alright, you're doing much better! Ellipses are much more confident! They still have a bit of wobbliness, so try to work on that on your next warmups though. You've done a good job keeping them to simple forms, you only have one or two that are more of stretched ellipse-like forms instead, so try be careful with that as well.

Your form intersections are now much more confident, which is great! They're a great improvement from the last ones you did. You got some overshooting, which you gotta work on with the next exercises, but that's not a problem.

Be sure to remember to draw a starting and ending point before drawing any line, and to ghost them, and your accuracy will improve soon!

Next Steps:

Alright, so I'm gonna mark this as complete. Take in mind all the things I said, and onto lesson 3, congratulations on finishing lesson 2, and good luck!

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
10:13 PM, Monday February 24th 2020

Ok,

Thank you for all your help, Elodin.

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