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9:42 AM, Monday June 26th 2023

Hello Jonathan, thank you for getting back to me with this additional page.

This is much better!

Each form has a sense of weight to it and is obeying gravity. The shadows are more consistent too.

It is fine to keep your arrangements simple at first, as you get used to applying gravity consistently to all the forms, and you can begin to explore more interesting arrangements gradually as you gain experience and confidence (this is why I asked you to stick to up to 7 forms, to keep things simple.) This exercise isn't neccessarily about getting the forms to cut through each other, but more about how they wrap around one another, and you're doing this pretty well.

You're showing a solid understanding of the exercise now, and I'll leave you to keep practising and experimenting in your warm ups. Feel free to move on to the 250 cylinder challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 6.

Next Steps:

250 cylinder challenge

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2:53 PM, Monday June 26th 2023

Hi DIO,

Thank you very much! I was having a lot of fun thinking with this exercise and ended up doing some extra practice in my sketchbook with really weird and unique shapes.

I look forward to starting the 250 cylinder challenge!

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