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1:17 PM, Saturday March 28th 2020

Thank for the critique, Uncomfortable. I'll work on my line weight for the next lesson. I see that exaggerated how much I used it in this one. Actually, this was because after adding many construction forms, the lines would get pretty messy and I'd have throuble handling them all. This got a bit easier by the end of the lesson, so maybe it will continue to get easier in the future.

As for the cactus, I was actually trying to work addictively, but clearly my construction doesn't show that. I tried to draw contour lines in the sphere and then add organic forms on top of each of them. Thing is, I didn't quite get how to make the organic appear "on top" of the sphere, an as I result the drawing got quite flat. Maybe using a more geometric form instead of an organic would make it easier to combine it correctly with the sphere?

Anyway, thanks again for your feedback!

7:48 PM, Saturday March 28th 2020

Working additively all comes down to learning how to wrap forms around one another, giving the impression that one form runs along the surface of the other. We delve much more into this through lesson 4, so you'll have ample opportunity to practice it.

8:12 PM, Saturday March 28th 2020

Thanks again!

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