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9:10 PM, Friday November 12th 2021

Hello,

I know it's been a while since you've worked on drawabox but one of the key things to work on while drawing ellipses for these lessons is to make always make sure you are drawing through your ellipse shapes multiple times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/drawingthrough This even applies to all the ellipses you will be drawing in future lessons as well. You are also deforming your ellipses at times by slowing down your stroke for the sake of accuracy. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/deformed So before moving on I'd like you to give this exercise one more try to at least get into the habit of always drawing through your ellipses before I mark this as complete and you move on to the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

One Page Ellipses in Funnels - Make sure you are always drawing through your ellipses

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:12 PM, Saturday December 4th 2021

Hahaha.... i am bad, bad, bad, at following directions. BAD. SO. The 250 box challenge is ... done? It took me about 30 hours. However, I will not submit it until you approve my ellipses. I'll do the ellipses and upload them now.

12:57 AM, Wednesday December 8th 2021

Please see my upload with drawn through ellipses:

https://imgur.com/a/VCAzCw5

12:57 AM, Wednesday December 8th 2021

I just wanted to make sure that this went through:

https://imgur.com/a/VCAzCw5

Here are two pages of re-drawn through ellipses.

2:24 AM, Wednesday December 8th 2021

Okay, these look better in terms of drawing through your ellipses. You are still having issues with getting wobbly linework and deformed ellipses because you are overly concerned with accuracy and are slowing down your stroke to compensate. Although accuracy is our end goal you need to focus on smooth confident ellipse shapes first by making sure you always ghost your ellipses multiple times and then try not to slow down your stroke while making your actual mark. The hesistation while slowing down your stroke for the sake of accuracy is why you are getting deformed ellipses and line wobble. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but should lead to a smoother overall shape that doesn't have wobbly linework. You'll build up accuracy with consistent practice. So keep these tips in mind and keep practicing ellipses during your warmups. I'm going to mark this as complete and you can move on to the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
4:01 PM, Friday December 10th 2021

Thank you so much, Rob. I truly appreciate the critique!

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