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Thanks for the tips and kind words! Glad you liked it!

I wanted to push contrast more, but I was afraid I'll ruin the piece, so I left it as it is. Also I think I failed at storytelling part of the piece. The main idea was jar family being unaware of a danger behind them -the guy with a hammer. I think I should skip the shack behind him, so he stands out more, I tried to fix it by adding him some bloodstains, but I think he still blends too much with the background.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

While I think I have pretty good grasp on making objects look solid(mostly thanks to you!) I still struggle a lot with textures and linemarking. I think I go too hard with filling darker areas with black. For example I'd be super happy with wheel 13, but these pitch black groove kinda ruin it. Often I cover a lot of space in black when trying to cover some mistakes, then I make another mistake and try to cover it again, haha.

As you said, 12 was an attempt to be more implicit with linemarking, but I think the structure suffered because I did not bother to mark the bumps to make sure they will be evenly distributed before commiting to them.

I think I'll tackle the texture challange while doing lesson 7.

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

I could definetly use more construction-based approach when drawing the ketchup bottle. That's true that I eyeballed all of its curvature and was not happy with the overall result, but overall I'm glad I tried to do it this way and saw why it was not the correct choice.

Regarding nose spray bottle I simply forgot about "no form shading" rule when I started doing it. After I remembered it I decided it's already too late and decided to apply it to the whole drawing for consistency.

I used ruler for some drawings, but I had problems controlling line weight when drawing with it and decided to not use it for some of the drawings. Lines would ususally be super thick or doesn't show at all. Maybe it's because my pen was running dry. Maybe that's the reason you thought I used ballpoint pen for some of the lines.

I already tried to do some wheels for the next challange and the results were... not satisfying to put it mildly. I'll go look for an ellipse guide.

Thanks again and see you later!

Thanks a lot!

I was aware of the foreshorting and shift correlation the whole time, but I think I tried to be more subtle about it in the beginning. I'm still not sure how much of degree shift should I apply, though. I'll try focus on it when doing exercise. Thanks for pointing that out.

Can't wait to start Lesson 6. Looks way more fun than this one.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the feedback. Here are the extra drawings: https://imgur.com/gallery/IuIYcAc

It was really difficult to restrain myself from adding detail(and I failed at it in some of my trashed attempts)

Wow. You were so right saying I was focusing on the detail too much and did not take my time to have a solid foundationm thus I haven't really exercised constructional skill as much as I should. This became extra obvious when I was working on these(I had like 10 attempts at this koala, until I was satisfied with the result). I think I still struggle with attaching the limbs, though

I'll continue to work on my sausages. I guess I should also practice adding mass around sausages, because I tend to ignore sausage method when legs thickness is not even, like you've noticed. I think adding mass to sausages would make a good homework exercise, because without practicing it in separation it's hard to apply it in a drawing.

Thanks a lot and see you in the next lesson!

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

I was planning to reply earlier with all of the additional drawings, but then I went on hiatus and the homework took a little longer than I initially expected.

Yes, I used a pencil for the fly drawing and I humbly apologize. I think I got caught in a "pretty picture mindset" with this one and wanted to make it clean.

Regarding ignoring form in cricket drawing. I realized that I misplaced that form and if I follow it cricket's wings would look very unnaturally, so I put another form and deliberately decided to ditch the first one.

I see your point regarding additive vs subtractive construction. Noted. Thanks!

I kinda didn't get your point about sausages and gestural flow at first, but when I was learning figure drawing in the meantime, it became clear and I agree. However, sausages are still difficult to get them right for me. Especially if they're long I tend to make them uneven.

Here are my additional drawings: https://imgur.com/gallery/gzkhcOt

I took another try at spider and scorpion demo which I failed last time and this time I think they turned out pretty ok.

Got it. Thanks

Thanks a lot! I'll work more on the stuff you've mentioned.

However, I have a question regarding the tomato drawing. Tomatoes are not as spherical as for example oranges, they are kinda uneven and wobbly and I wanted to capture this. Should I still draw them as spheres in the construction stage, though?