Here are the new pages with animal construction: https://imgur.com/gallery/AyymL7G
Thank you for you detailed feedback! It helped me a lot, especially the part about drawing the birds and the reminder about drawing the proper intersection of additional masses.
While working on these pages I made sure to draw only one drawing in a given sitting. The drawings took me 20-30 minutes to complete each.
Thank you for your feedback!
You are right, this was a poor wording about the contours. I meant that I'm afraid to draw the contour curves too wide - I'm worried that they would be too wide and as a result I sometimes draw them too narrow.
I'll make sure to practice and work on fixing my mistakes.
Thank you for your detailed feedback and suggestions!
I have spent some time resting and then rewarched all the relevant videos. I have realized that I have missed some important concepts (such as the role of the contour ellipse in the sausages). Also it became a little easier to notice my own mistakes.
After that I have spent several days on practicing contour curves, sausages and parts of insects (especially on the interactions between various parts).
I hope the result is better now. I have drawn one new insect (https://cdn.agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/hornet-AdobeStock_335794715-e1589225282226.jpg) and redraw two demos and one beetle. I think that the drawing of the black widow turned out to be the best one.
For each insect I have made two attempts (I didn't like the first attempt, so I made another one).
Asian hornet: 20 and 25 minutes.
Louse: 15 and 20 minutes.
Black widow: 15 and 23 minutes.
Macrodontia: 15 and 25 minutes.
I still have the problems with the degree of the contour lines, mainly because I try not to draw them too wide. I have added one more page just in case.
https://imgur.com/gallery/n5WMxhM
Thank you for the feedback, I tried my best to improve.
It is quite challenging for me to draw good ellipses (drawing them only from the shoulder), so I continue to practice them a lot.
And it is difficult to capture the form of the petals too.
Thank you! I'll be sure to keep practicing.
https://imgur.com/gallery/De6z5qE
Than you for your feedback! It was very helpful. I have tried to fix my mistakes and hope the results are better this time.
The organic intersections excercise was the most difficult one for me.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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