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7:36 AM, Monday August 30th 2021

First of all thank you for this course!

I feel like I've improved a lot in the year and a half that its taken me.

I realized that i forgot to include the times in my submission so here you go.

https://imgur.com/a/O6Ik7KE

During the course I've made a habit out of checking critiques on other submissions in order to avoid the more common mistakes and use the course to it's fullest. This has also lead me to making a bunch of mistakes nobody else was making :-).

I've been following along as you have been updating the course and wanted to make a suggestion before you get to the animals. Could you include more herbivores in your updated demos? Herbivores and carnivores have different eye placement I remember having trouble applying the face construction to them.

Anyway thank you so much for the course and for all of the lessons!

but now I really want to draw people...

10:46 PM, Monday August 30th 2021

I could already tell from your work that you'd poured many hours into it - so your table there is just a confirmation of what was already clear! :D

I'll take note of your request in regards to lesson 5. I definitely do want to redo the demonstrations that are currently available as part of the lesson itself, and then once the whole overhaul is complete, continue making a steady library of the informal-demo type ones to provide more and more information. Either way, I'll try to deal with more herbivores than I have in the past.

If I haven't shared it with you before, I do have this rhino head construction demo that you might find interesting.

5:47 AM, Tuesday August 31st 2021

Thank you!

That demo was very informative!

I don't remember seeing it among the informal demos, but it's been a bit since i went through that lesson.

And yeah, I think you mentioned in your critique that you could see that i had spent a lot of time on the drawings. But now I had put some effort into actually recording and then I forgot to include them! It's pure self gratification at this point.

Once again thank you! I'll stop occupying your notifications now.

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