Ahh! Gotta check you off I guess (sorry first critique)
Next Steps:
Continue to plan out and put down each line down confidently
Be more intentional with the legs and gesture (I think I summarized most of my next steps in my original comment)
Overall, its looking like a pretty solid submission!
*I'm on lesson 5 whilst taking official critiques, take what you need and disregard the rest : )
The organic sausages are looking solid - good job!
In the case of your first insect (leaf cutter I believe?) - the absence of one leg jumps at me quite a bit! I'm not sure how the reference image was arranged, but it does look a bit unnatural. Since there isn't much else clutter on your insect, you probably could have constructed the leg if you wanted to.
For your first honeybee/wasp, I feel like you could've constructed more form. From my experience, I've found that the abdomen is often much more fascinating and nuanced - e.g., there are often planes https://drawabox.com/lesson/4/7/turningform or the segmentation is composed of different components.
With your spider - I think you might want to think about the gesture and flow of your lines. For your middle legs, you put a lot of individual sausages. But notice: they're quite stiff if you go about that way - kind of like antennae. Sometimes, it makes more sense to capture the gesture through just putting a few sausages that have a nice organic and natural turn.
For your black widow, the texture on cephalothroax falls a bit flat. It looks like the legs are sprouting from the ground kind of. Try to always think that your forms are 3D. That way, your texture and glitter really curves over the surface and makes the form seem solid and not flat.
Other than that, I would say this is pretty well done. The last few were definitely much more solid - you've shown improvement throughout the course of taking this lesson.
Stay strong.
No way to thumbs up - but I have to say: thank you! I'll take your advice to heart
Thank you for the feedback!
Just a quick question. Often the outline seems analogous to the cast shadow - e.g., if I have a rock wall with many crevices, the outlines of the shapes are physical depressions with their open respective shadows (e.g., similar to what I drew on the 2nd drawing of the texture analysis). In a case like this, how would we draw just the cast shadows without causing too much visual information to clutter the scene?
Thanks for the reply!
Thanks for the feedback! I don't know if you'll reply to this but its worth a try - which boxes specifically seemed to not be actually rotated? I'm having a had time seeing this - is it the last boxes on each vertical column and row of boxes?
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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