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1:59 PM, Thursday June 17th 2021

This is looking good! I have just two things to call out:

  • Not sure what these and these random lines are, but if you're employing the ghosting method and planning out every mark before you draw it, that generally shouldn't be occurring.

  • This petal has a bit more complexity to it (where it suddenly gets narrower towards the end) that should have been captured in two phases - first drawing the simpler leaf silhouette, then cutting back into it towards the tip to create that narrower section.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
8:14 AM, Saturday June 19th 2021

I think those marks came from me ghosting to close to the page, I'll work on it! Thanks for the help with the petals, I'll definitely try use that technique in some of these insect drawings!

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