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10:51 PM, Monday February 22nd 2021

Hey Lunando!.

Sorry for the poor quality of the photos, I will try to use an scanner as I did for this new submission of Tables and Planes of Ellipses.

https://imgur.com/a/96VByB4

Would you suggest me that I use Tables and Planes of Ellipses as a warm up? This question is because I think is the "most complete" exercise for all of my problems.

I don't have words for this complete critique that you have done. Thank you so much Lunando, I'm going to apply all of your suggestions for the next lessons and 250 Boxes Challenge.

9:09 AM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021

Hey, your welcome!

If you're using a scanner for your pages, make sure that the scanner is not boosting up your contrast, brightness and sharpening of your scans as some scanners do by default. Scanning works fine if you disable all the mentioned things above in your scanner settings. The easiest thing often is to just place it in the sun and then take a picture of it.

Now to my critique:

I really like that you started to draw through all of your ellipses which was my main critique! Also the fact that you didn't spend too much thought on accuracy but rather on confident lines is good. You seem to still struggle a bit with keeping the ellipses the same size and degree. Some of your ellipses are still a bit uneven and bumpy or with pointy ends, so watch out for that. Make sure you ghost as long as you need, to be really confident with your motion before you put the pen down on the paper. There's still a lot of room for improvement regarding especially the "smoothness" of your ellipses not leaving them wobbly and uneven! You can also slowly start working on their accuracy but still keeping in mind that we always put confidence over accuracy. First we want smooth and confident ellipses, if we have that we can start working on accuracy!

Make sure you continue to practice your ellipses!

Next Steps:

I think you made good progress and incorporated my critique well! So I think you should be ready for the 250 Box Challenge, congratulations!

And to your question: Yes, try to keep all the exercises from lesson 1 as warmups, especially the ones you struggle the most with!

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