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Hi betsyjp,

That's a PDF that people who join our mailing list get. You can join our mailing list on our homepage if you like: https://line-of-action.com/

As soon as you confirm wanting to be on the mailing list, you're emailed the PDF of the pencil weight workbook for download and print. :)

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TDG, can you please tell me what kind of tablet you have and which browser you use on it?

Okay, I have new pause button/next button code out just now. The pause button should no longer break if you use the "next" button while paused.

In addition, the next button now works in the following way in class mode: If you are more than halfway through the time you've been allotted to draw an image and use the "next" button, the tools will assume you've finished early and move you to the next pose in the class. But, if you're LESS than halfway through the image's time, it will assume you just didn't care for the image you were assigned for that segment and change JUST the image, without advancing the class segment. Hopefully this is a better balancing of competing concerns and makes more people happy. :)

I've also slipped a test version of the code that's meant to stop mobile devices from going to sleep while you're drawing into that patch.

Aha! Okay, that information was essential. I can see it now. Thank you! Adding it to the list of known issues and will see what I can do. :)

Interesting. So far I'm unable to reproduce your issue with the pause button not pausing. When you click it, what happens? Nothing at all? Or does the pause button turn into a softly pulsing play button?

A patch just went live that intends to fix the ios resizing bug; this solved it on my own ipad. Please confirm that it works for yours too! :)

A patch just went live that intends to fix the ios resizing bug; this solved it on my own ipad. Please confirm that it works for yours too! :)

New patch released; post updated.

Wooo! May have broken through that pesky compile issue. :D

OP updated again.

I'm working like crazy on getting this next patch out; my goal is to release it before the end of the month. Stuff that I'm 90% sure will be included in that patch:

* Make pause dialogue less disruptive.
* Break messages need to be updated to include the exact recommended break length, instead of just showing it in the “time left” timer.
* Break messages should not advance the photos.
* In the animals section when you click “Only show live animals” it says no images fit this criteria.
* Better image pre-loading, so you don’t waste precious drawing seconds waiting for an image to load.

I may also be able to squeeze in the ipad/safari resizing issue. We'll see. Right now, struggling with one odd compile issue that's slowing me down ATM and making it hard to estimate an exact date and to know what else I'll be able to cram in. Will keep you posted as I break through that blocker!

For future reference, there's also a wee bit of info about what happened over the last year here: https://line-of-action.com/forums/topic/apologies-for-absence-im-back-and-working-on-loa-actively-again/

Definitely a great start! Great idea to work on improving over the summer.

I would also add to the comments people have already posted, when you ARE ready to move on to shading, you do not appear to have the control over your pencil needed to produce a variety of subtle shades (although that may just be a bad scan.)

A simple exercise you can do pretty much anywhere, even while riding the bus, is to draw some boxes on a piece of paper and then try to fill every box with a different shade from your pencil, from lightest to darkest. See how many boxes you can still get a different shade into! There's actually a downloadable workbook for this exercise you can get by signing up for our mailing list, too. :)

Most of my instructors over the years have had a no eraser on exercises policy, for exactly the reasons you described - it shows you where you went wrong, and helps to teach you not to second guess and slow yourself down. Exercises are, after all, just that. It's okay if the mistakes stay in them. :)

I've had numerous instructors say something along the lines of "(s)he who erases most, wins" when it comes to work that's going to be "finalized." Of course, a lot of my instruction was in scientific illustration...

Thanks! :D Glad to be back!

Safari on iPad?

That said; please do let me know what kind of tablet you're using, as some of them do work and I need to be sure I'm testing with the correct setup ;)