Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids
5:54 AM, Saturday March 9th 2024
Reference Photos: https://imgur.com/a/HzqxBtn
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4:23 PM, Saturday March 30th 2024
Hello there I call myself Quat and I am going to review your exercises for lesson 4.
First of all: organic forms with counter curves. You did a good job following the instructions and the sausages look well made so good job on that.
As for the Insects: Overall I can see that you didn't draw the intersection/joint for Most of the insects you drew .
The demos look well made for the most part but The Wasp is drawn in a way that makes the abdomen look Disconnected from the thorax.
I don't have much to say about the other demos other than that you did a great job.
For the stag beetle I noticed that you attached the left "arm" in a wrong place in the thorax. While In reality limbs are supposed to be parallel to each others, or at least start from places that are parallel to each others. This is not really important for draw a box, but I thought I should point it out.
as for the spider you did a good job with the construction, but you should have drawn the outline of the Shadow of the limbs that are touching the the wall Because them your spider looks stretched for no reason.
From what I can see, The rest of your insects looks pretty good and I think that you are ready for lesson 5
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6:56 PM, Monday April 1st 2024
Thanks for the critique, I'll watch out for those intersections in Lesson 5.
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