2:00 PM, Saturday May 1st 2021
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FatSquirrel
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fatsquirrel's Sketchbook
1:32 PM, Tuesday March 30th 2021
Thank you for the critique!
it seems like I was completely missing the point of using the fineliner, as you said, which is to commit to the lines and not be fickle with it. This is a hard habit to kick, I admit, but the mantis shrimp was probably the attempt that was the one I felt was most clean, at the very least for the parts that I didn't imagine in (the scratchy lines that you pointed to, which wasn't really clear in the reference, so I just imagined it in, which made for markedly different line quality than the rest of the drawing)
On the topic of 3D spatial understanding, I still have some problems, so I will continue to work on it. Sometimes I get confused, and intersections from lesson 2 are still pretty difficult to master.
To honour your feedback, I shall commit to the lines I draw, planning them ahead of time as well as ghosting the lines for Lesson 5.
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