Capn_Mark

Overall I'd say these are pretty good. Notably you're getting how the turning of the tread around the tire changes the its spacing. You also seem to be competently drawing the various spokes evenly through the cylinder (though there are a few minor mistakes there).

There are two things I want to point out here though.

1. You're a little light on the detailing, particularly on the front wall and spokes of the tire. I expect this is probably because you're drawing small due to limitations of an ellipse guide, but I would still try to fit a bit more detail in there. Particularly, make sure that you're giving depth to the spokes for the tires. A lot of them are quite flat as drawn.

2. Watch the angle of your ellipses for the back edge of the tire. The degree of the ellipse is always going to be larger for the further side of the cylinder. On some of these (eg 3rd row, 3rd from the right) you're either making them the same or making the degree smaller on the back side.

The last thing I want to note here is that there's very little variation on these. You're drawing them all from the same vertical perspective and they're all fairly similar tires. I would recommend attempting a few more before or during L7 from higher/lower perspective and differing wheel types (eg bicycle, moped, airplane, wagon, etc...) just to get a bit more variety of exposure to how wheels can differ.

The link to your gallery is broken Nevermind. I think it's my connection.

Your insects here are well observed and well proportioned. The cantharidae is probably the best of the group. I see issues with construction throughout however, which is the focus for these lessons.

The biggest issue here is that many of your final lines aren't conforming to your initial forms. For example, the top of the grasshoppers head clearly deviates from the inital ovoid you laid down for it. Same with the dragonfly's head. Remember: these aren't just guidelines that you're gauging proportions based on, free to ignore or deviate from as you please. They're forms that you are constructing these insects out of. You can build other 3d forms on top of them, or you can carve out of them. But just drawing an entirely different form occupying the same space ruins the illusion of space.

One issue that's probably contributing to the above one is that you're not contouring your initial forms. The sausage warmup isn't just for fun. It's there to reinforce the techniques you'll need for the remaining lesson. For every initial form you lay down, you need to be putting at least one or two contours around it to reinforce its volume.

My last, and more minor, criticism is that you're overdoing your lineweights a little bit,

This may come across as a bit harsh, but I feel as if you weren't ready for this lesson. Your form intersections show that you're still struggling to internalize certain lessons from L1 and L2. Your lines are overshooting their end points; Your boxes don't all have converging sides; Your ellipses are sloppy and their minor axis doesn't align with the center of your cylinders; You're not adequately using lineweight to separate your forms. I have criticisms of your constructions as well, but many of them stem from incomplete understanding of the fundamentals learned in earlier lessons.

I only count 234 boxes. You need to finish or upload the remaining 16. Please also renumber the boxes from first to last chronologically so that reviewers don't have to a) manually count them all again to make sure you've finished the assignment and b) can tell which boxes came earlier and which came later. Don't worry so much about the hatching and lineweights. Yes, you should be doing it, but the real focus here is on your construction and use of perspective.

Much better. I don't have any more specific critiques to add to this other than remember to keep doing all these for warmups going forward. Have fun in the box challenge.

These look very nice to me. You're hitting a lot of the main points that people often struggle with. Everything is broken down and constructed into its primary masses well. You're line quality is very clean. You're doing a good job of capturing the separation from the ground plane with the drop shadows. I see a good understanding of how the gesture of the legs move, something that people often struggle with on this lesson. And on the drawings that you textured, it's generally applied well. That said, I do have a few minor pointers for you:

1. Don't forget to draw through your forms. You did pretty well with this on the first few pages, but in the later pages (such as the ant and the scorpion) it seems you neglected to do this.

2. Work on your line weight and separating which forms pass in front of others. For the most part everything here is the same line weight. Thickening things up on the forms that pass in front will help separate them in 3D space and give the drawing more depth.

3. When you put a form down, commit to it. On some of the flies for example, I can see lighter forms for the abdomen portion that don't extend all the way out to the edge of the drawing, as if you put it down then decided it needed to be bigger so made another pass at it. This undermines the solidity of the drawing. Once you put a form down, it's part of the drawing. You can build on top of it or carve into it, but you need to honor that foundation you put down on the paper.

Overall though, this is good and I think you're ready to move on to Lesson 5.

I think this is a decent first step. You're superimposed lines are little messy and frayed, but your ghosted lines are decently straight. You're ellipses could use some more work too, but that will come with practice. One trick that might help with ellipses is to make sure your forearm is aligned with the minor axis while you draw them.

On the boxes, your convergences are often off, and I think you can probably see this when you check them. Beyond that though make sure that parallel lines don't converge, which I see some of on the rough perspective and rotated boxes exercise.

On the organic boxes I don't see any overlaps and the change in size from front to back should be more dramatic.

However, my biggest issue here is one of completeness. The assignment instructions say "Filled pages", but many of these are less than even halfway full. And several that are "full", like the superimposed lines, aren't actully very dense.

I'd suggest revisiting some of these exercises for the sake of completeness, as well as the extra practice it would give you.

Overall, I'd say these are looking very nice. You've definitely understood the purpose of the lesson on breaking insects down into their component forms and building the drawing from those. You're also observing the detail well I think. I do have some pointers, but for the most part their pretty minor.

1. Try to be more confident with your initial forms. I notice on some (eg the wasp abdomen, the scorpion pincher), you're going around these forms numerous times. This is usually because someone's not confident that they've laid the form down well enough, and it undermines the final drawing. Keep it to 1-2 times around max. One thing that can help is to keep a scratch piece of paper around that you practice just the initial form until it feels right, then lay it down on your final drawing.

2. Keep in mind how your texture wraps around the forms. You're applying it pretty evenly across the whole drawing. You want to vary it from darker near the edges to lighter on the planes facing the viewer, like you did in lesson 2.

3. Don't draw the drop shadow immediately below the insect. Shadows will be close on parts like legs that are touching the ground plane. But as the forms move further away from the shadow, more distance will generally open up between the insect and the drop shadow.

4. Always put at least one contour on a form. For the most part, you constructed these well in 3D, but there were a few places where it fell flat (literally). The biggest offender here is the lepidoptera. Without contours, it's just a flat shape, and the resulting drawing will be flat as well. Even a complete side on view, it helps to skew the drawing at least a little bit in one direction or the other in order to give it volume.

Again, good job overall. I think you're ready to move onto lesson 5.