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My recent communication to her:

Your painting is making me realize I've got to be more detailed with my ground texturing when penning this. It blends well but is too soft without any sort of guidance through penned lines, so that's on me. Otherwise I think you've got the right direction there. Grass, same situation. I want the areas around where I pen to be darker in tone compared to the surrounding coloring, and for there to be a slightly more solid coloring and gradual transitions between lights and darks, but I take an F on emphasizing that in the penning as well. So you're helping me see where I've got to make changes in my penning an to convey that direction to you. Also, I take another F for not penning grass against the house wall. It looks like a house just landed on the grash and smushed it down. So, I'll have to repen that to emphasize grass along the wall and let you do some magic there. This is probably the longest critique I've had, but I think a lot more of it is on my lack of solid direction for the ground textures, so I'll have to be more purposeful in my sketching for the future.

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Closing in on the end of this picture.

This was what she sent me at 4


And then at 6


I'm still dissatisfied with the mountains and clouds but the picture is taking a good turn.

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Updated line art being sent for painting.

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Background blowout!