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12:24 PM, Tuesday October 13th 2020

Thank you for the critique and the tips! I'll try to go for longer studies for proportion (I already read drawing on the right side of the brain, I think I simply need practice) and I will focus on cast shadows for texture. Also for the center ellipses you have it right, my ellipse guide is very limited and I can only choose between 2 degrees. Usually for the center one I take the same degree as the first one, but with a bigger minor axis. In some cases I tried to do them without the help of the ellipse guides (5 and 7), with poor success. Do you have an idea of what I could do? The degrees I have are 15, 30, 45 and 60.

12:35 AM, Wednesday October 14th 2020

So unfortunately in this case your best bet is to use the ellipse guide for the outer two, and then do your best to do the middle one freehand. This obviously isn't ideal, and will definitely benefit from some heavy warming-up beforehand, but as long as the ellipse isn't too far off it should be workable.

12:16 PM, Wednesday October 14th 2020

Okay perfect I will try that!

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