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5:14 PM, Monday July 26th 2021
edited at 5:15 PM, Jul 26th 2021

Hello Weijak!

First things first, I want to apologise for not replying sooner. I'd been feeling quite overwhelmed with all the work related to my studies for the past few months. But as I have more free time now, I've decided to continue with Drawabox lessons.

Thank you for mentioning the fact that I keep cutting back into my forms, I wasn't sure how to approach adding details to leaf edges - now I know how to do it properly and I'll try to avoid this mistake.

I'm very grateful for your clarification considering applying line weight to my constructions - I didn't know whether this step was a part of construction phase or not. But now I understand that my plant drawings look unclear because they lack line weight variation.

I find applying cast shadows pretty difficult, I didn't notice that shadows in my daisy demo were contradicting each other. Thank you for pointing this out for me, I'll definitely pay more attention to this problem.

Again, I'm very grateful for your thorough critique and good luck on your art journey!

edited at 5:15 PM, Jul 26th 2021
10:06 PM, Monday July 26th 2021

Hi! Dont worry, this course is made so you can keep at it at your pace, the important thing is that you are coming back to it! (if that goes in with your interests of course). Regarding cast shadows, once you understand that they follow the form that they are being cast on and set up an arbitrary light direction, it becomes a very mechanical thing that its easier to practice, so dont worry too much about it, you will get better at it with time!

I hope you are able to use your free time on things you enjoy, and good luck to you too!

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