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4:51 PM, Tuesday April 8th 2025

I recommend reviewing the critique every now and then, as I think your first run through may not have fully understood everything I laid out there. I mainly say this because the main focus of the critique is that you focused on observation (and so your observation skills improved) but that this exercise has a lot more to it than observation.

So when your response was more observation, it gives the impression that you may benefit from going through that feedback again, maybe after a little while.

7:01 PM, Tuesday April 8th 2025

I will be coming back because I definitely do not have a good grasp on texture just yet. It's a bit discouraging but these things take time I suppose.

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