Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[JosephCow]

And if you don't drag it out the general feedback is you could have used that time to review and be critical of your own work. Needless to say I find all that does is make people overly critical instead of using what they've learned for the next project.

I'm not sure I get your meaning. I kind of feel that dragging it out provides a lot more time to be critical of your work, at least. But do you think that makes people critical in an unproductive way?