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9:56 AM, Friday September 15th 2023

Hello MsPurr, thank you for getting back to me with your revisions. I'm incredibly pleased to see that you have taken the feedback you've recieved in stride and took your time to reacquaintance yourself with the Lesson material, these new pages are a great step forward and stick to the principles of construction and the techniques Drawabox seeks to teach much more closely.

Your work here is much more tridimensional, your leaves are much more fluid and energetic, and in general your constructions are much more structurally sound than your original attempts at these exercises. There are still some things that could have been approached differently, and places where you can still improve, but in general you've done a really good job.

It is really good to see that you're making use of boundary lines in order to approach certain constructions, such as this wood aspen and this structure as it helps you maintain the size between the different parts of your structure more consistent and thus, keep the relationships between your different phases of construction tighter and more specific.

But you can respect some of your boundary lines a bit more closely, as sometimes your constructions are looser than they could be due to the flow lines for the individual petals of the complex structure going past the boundary laid out by the previous phase of construction, or not abiding by it at all, such as in this periwinkle where the boundary doesn't actually establish anything because the petals of the structure go past it.

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, otherwise it may as well not exist.

In this parsley construction you're defaulting to skipping construction steps for some of the leaf structures, as well as zigzagging your edge detail which is a mistake that goes against the third principle of mark-making from lesson 1, remember that your edge detail must be built on top of a preexisting structure, and that you must capture each piece of detail individually, to maintain higher control over your marks.

Now, while your work is much better than your initial attempts, you did forget the 1 page of branches that I requested in your original revisions. Because branches are one of the points where you struggled the most originally, I really wanted to make sure that you would go over them again in order to strengthen your understanding of that exercise, as such I'm not going to be marking this submission as complete just yet, please reply with the missing 1 page of branches.

Next Steps:

1 page of branches.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
2:46 AM, Tuesday October 10th 2023

Hello!

Here is the page of branches: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BeLXdPV2qCDsuTHu9

9:18 PM, Tuesday October 10th 2023

Hello MsPurr, thank you for sending your page of branches.

Your branches are looking much better than your initial attempt as you're following the instructions more closely, although there are sometimes where you're placing your ellipses too close together, which doesn't allow for a good enough length of runway between lines to allow for a nice transition between marks.

Make sure to maintain a good length between your ellipses. I'm going to be marking this submission as complete, good luck in Lesson 4.

Next Steps:

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

Move on to Lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
3:54 AM, Wednesday October 11th 2023

Thank you!

It's been pretty cool to see how these lessons have improved the other things I work on. I've taken part in two shows in the last couple of months and sold my first painting last Friday.

I'm looking forward to the next lessons.

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