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2:57 AM, Tuesday July 18th 2023

Hello Ebni, thank you for getting back to me with your revisions. I'm sorry to hear you're having a rough time, I hope they get better with time.

Looking at your work these stick to the instructions for the lessons much more closely than your initial work, as such they are looking much more tridimensional and have a much greater feeling of volume.

Of course there are still some issues present, for example, you still have problems with redrawing your lines. There is a reason why we draw these exercises in ink, it's so that we can develop a deep respect behind each and every mark we make, in order to do this we must direct our energies to the planning section of making a mark, we must place as many dots as necessary and ghost as many times as needed - and only then must be execute our mark. If we were unsuccessful, then all we can do is accept it and move on to the next line. Do not redo any mark that turned out unsuccessful.

These leaf structures are looser than they could be, due to the flow lines for the individual "arms" of the complex structure going past the boundary laid out by the previous phase of construction (the one where you established the simple overall footprint for the structure). The bigger shape establishes a decision being made - this is how far out the general structure will extend - and so the flow lines for the later leaf structures should abide by that.

In general these are a vast improvement over your original homework pages, I believe you now understand the purpose of this lesson as well as what it seeks to teach you, and I'll be marking this submission as complete. Good luck in Lesson 4.

Next Steps:

Don't forget to add these exercises to your warm ups list.

Move on to Lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
12:52 PM, Tuesday July 18th 2023

Thank you for this reply. Redoing these things started to click for me as to what the exercises were going for. It's one thing to read it in the lesson, another to attempt to put it in practice.

I'm glad my improvement stood out. I will continue to work on issues like the redrawing lines thing.

Thank you again.

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