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2:27 PM, Sunday June 6th 2021

Your leaves are definitely looking improved, but I'm seeing issues still present with your branches. While they're definitely more intentional and less loose/vague than before, you're still making some of the same mistakes. This suggests to me that perhaps you allowed too much time to pass in between your last reading of my critique of that section, and your work on the exercise, so you forgot key points I raised.

This is the part you appear to have missed:

There are also plenty of cases where you didn't extend your line segments fully halfway to the next ellipse, resulting in a shorter overlap between them. You'll find the specific instructions for this exercise laid out fairly succinctly here.

It's incredibly important that you follow the instructions to the letter. While it's not an easy exercise, you're basically setting yourself up not to do it correctly by not being aware of what the exercise asks of you, as you do it. Each segment needs to extend from one ellipse, past the second, and halfway to the third - with the next one starting at the second ellipse, and repeating the pattern. While your ability to execute this correctly is subject to skill/practice, one first has to have the intent to follow this pattern consciously in the first place, which currently you do not.

Give the branches another shot, with a full page.

Next Steps:

Please submit one full page of branches.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:41 AM, Monday June 7th 2021

Hello.

I apologize for not reading correctly the instructions. I had not gotten the part of starting back from the ellipse, rather than from where I ended the stroke halfway.

Here's a new page which hopefully shows that I got it this time. I found it easier to control my stroke this way too.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DC8Xpd4Pkz4oWJgh9

Cheers,

Nico

2:43 PM, Monday June 7th 2021

That is definitely looking much better. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Move onto lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
12:02 AM, Tuesday June 8th 2021

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