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7:33 AM, Thursday May 28th 2020
edited at 11:02 AM, May 28th 2020

I didn't realize I forgot to post the flowers. Just for completeness here they are https://imgur.com/7oqVP6J And you say your going to assign more pages but I don't see anything listed.

I was just thinking one of the reasons that I'm not doing well with all of this is because I'm not thinking about past lessons in the new lessons. My thinking is "that lesson is done let's learn something new now in the next one". And I tend to just focus on the new instructions without trying to incorporate the previous ones.

edited at 11:02 AM, May 28th 2020
4:40 PM, Thursday May 28th 2020

Those flowers are definitely moving in the right direction, and I'm really happy with how a lot of those petals have been drawn with confident, smoothly flowing lines. One thing to keep in mind though is that the ellipse you draw early on is meant to define the specific bounds of your construction - for many of these, it establishes how far out your petals are going to go.

Constructional drawing is all about making decisions step by step, one by one, in this manner. We make one decision (how far out will the petals go?) and then we adhere to it as we move forwards, rather than ignoring it or deciding to change that decision. Once it has been made, it cannot be changed, otherwise we'll end up with contradictions in our drawing.

Another way you can think about it is in terms of the scaffolding that holds up a building. While it is being constructed, we put up struts and supports, and what we build on top of them cannot overextend beyond where it is actually supported. Every phase of construction is similar - we lay out a structure, and then in the next phase we adhere to what the existing structure can hold up. Then that becomes the structure to support the next phase, and so on. So this flower in particular ended up with more complex edges that didn't quite follow the structure that preceded it that closely, resulting in a much weaker relationship from phase to phase.

As for the additional pages I assigned, they should be listed in orange just underneath my last critique, as shown here. If they aren't showing up, could you tell me what browser/device you're using to view the website? It could be a bug.

Lastly, I definitely agree that the approach you described - moving forward without thinking about what was covered in the previous lesson - would definitely hold you back. The things we learn in previous lessons aren't at all meant to be left aside as we move forwards. Every lesson builds on what we learned in the previous one, and having a lesson marked as complete doesn't mean you don't have to worry about it anymore. Instead, it means that you show that you understand what you should be aiming for, so you should be able to practice and improve upon it on your own. That's why those exercises become part of our warmups - there's loads of additional mileage we need to cover to really get those skills down firmly.

12:32 AM, Friday May 29th 2020

I'm using chrome. I see the additional pages now but they weren't there this morning for some reason. Anyway I see it now so I guess it's ok now.

5:51 PM, Tuesday June 2nd 2020

Before I hand in the extra pages I forgot to ask if you wanted 1 page of both ellipse exercises or just a specific one?

8:07 PM, Tuesday June 2nd 2020

1 page of the tables of ellipses and 1 page of the funnels exercise.

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