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Thank you for the feedback! I remember feeling overwhelmed by the boxes in the beginning of the course, but now these more complex boxes make sense and I have enough capacity left to see my own mistakes while I'm drawing. This course really hits the sweet spot between too difficult and not challenging enough.

Thank you for the demo! And I really appreciate your patience. I wasn't expecting this level of follow-up at all, it's fantastic. When I'm a filthy rich artist famous for drawing rats I'll name a school after you.

Here's a rat and a roe deer: https://imgur.com/a/jt01JVd

Ref: https://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk/00012-roe-deer

I can see how I messed up the perspective on the deer butt, but I just don't see how to fix it. I'm honestly feeling the "oh maybe some people just can't draw"-stage, I'll go reread your thing on talent and then draw some more. I think maybe the observation part is my big problem right now, as you mentioned. I look at the front leg, look at my page, look at front leg, and draw a tiny stump 1/3 of the size it should be, and don't realize until I go to draw the muscle in front of the leg.

Waaait ... I reported your post instead of replying. Well done, me!

Here are references:

https://i.insider.com/5e94d16992e8ba14ef3ab533?width=1136&format=jpeg

https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kajx/files/styles/x_large/public/201307/7413906922_c0b6e9c7ef_o.jpg

Thank you! Two more animals: https://imgur.com/a/gP7jr35

I'm starting to feel the forms more now, feels like something is about to click into place regarding wrapping forms around one another.

I obviously still mess up (the face of the rat didn't go as planned), but of all the Drawabox lessons so far I feel my drawing has had the most noticeable progress with this one.

Your drawings on top of mine really help me get the concept. I can see that your sausage form looks like it's wrapping around another solid form, and I can see that mine doesn't, and when you put them on top of one another I understand why.

Okay, here we go: https://imgur.com/a/t0ouzRZ

Drawing is hard, who knew! :D

I don't quite know how to end my animals (you pointed this out in your first critique, but my back ellipses are still too narrow and not angled enough), and I consistently draw legs too small and short. I end up not being able to add masses under the ribcage (like the fox) because then they would drag the ground.

Thank you! I'm impressed with how fast you're dishing out these comprehensive comments.

I think I understand all your points, and will get to work drawing some more animals with them in mind.

The image of the European white wasp you linked is actually the reference image for my drawing, which tells me I'm not quite there when it comes to conveying the perspective of my reference. I'll move onto the next section, as you say (it deals with the same problems, right?), but I'll keep this in mind.

Thank you again for taking the time to correct additional attempts! I wouldn't have been able to see these mistakes myself.

Alrighty, thank you for your second round of comprehensive comments.

3/4 view wasp, bee, horse-fly: https://imgur.com/a/SyyR1Pl

As warmups I did some pages of "armoured sausages", I think I'm slowly starting to wrap my head around wrapping (but the failure monster is definitely still hungry).

Hey,

Finally got my pens, so my three additional insects are here:

https://imgur.com/a/v4M0jJA

Thank you for taking the extra time to comment on revisions.

Wasp: The abdomen segmentation went wrong because I didn't realise the first went all the way around the abdomen, and couldn't figure out how to fix the now unarmored area of the abdomen.

I'm not going to be discouraged if you think I should go back to previous lessons before moving forward. I'm very couraged.

Great, thanks for your feedback! I'll get back to you with revisions soon (but I've run out of ink and my local store is closed due to pandemic, so I have to wait for a shipment of pens).