Thank you very much for your critique !
Shadows concept in the lightest part is much clearer to me after your explanation and I now realize that I haven't insisted as much as I should have regarding the transition of the black bar in some of the textures. I'll be more carefull with that in the future.
Ok, I'll do that. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your encouraging critic.
I take the opportunity of this answer to ask a little clarification for the lesson 6 homework : in the homework paragraph, you instruct us to use ballpoint pen. Should we draw the form intersections pages with the ballpoint pen as well or just the everyday objects ?
As we have drawn the previous form intersections with the feltip pen, I would like to be sure what tool should I use for them.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for your critique.
And thank you for your advices about the legs construction and of not running along the silhouette : I realize I hadn't understood these points yet which led me to draw 2D shapes.
Hi,
Thank you for your critique, and I apologize for having taken so long before being able to submit my new homework.
I read your critique several times, and reread the lesson 4 critique and took notes of the main mistakes.
Although I’m training almost every day, it took me a lot of time to do these 4 drawings : I’ve spent several weeks on each animal, doing a lot of drafts to find the best way to use as minimal masses as I could, without oversimplifying the shapes. I’ve also drew around 50 heads of each one, trying to find the best way to do them. Unfortunately, I was stressed when knowing I was working on the submission version, and some of my drafts where probably better on some parts than these 4 pages.
i also had a cold for 2 weeks, during which I had to stop drawing for 1 complete week as my arm was shaking due to fever.
In the end I had 4 pages of animals, but realized, that my eye socket shapes were too rounded as I was trying too much to mimic the rounded shape of the head ball. I decided then to redo all of the 4 drawings with more pentagonal shapes for the eyesockets. That requested another complete week to redo all of the drawings.
Even though I worked on this homework almost everyday, that’s why I couldn’t submit earlier.
With all my apologies.
There are still mistakes, but I didn’t manage to do a complete version without some.
The kestrel’s left wing was hard for me as it was seen from an angle. I tried to build shapes to mimic the rounded joint at the top. I also had difficulties to do the flat shape of the head without reverting to 2D shapes.
Some of the drafts of the elephant head where better than this one, but I didn’t manage to redo them as well on this version, especially the eye : the eyeball was probably too big and as I tried to correct when drawing the eyelids, it feels it as a been little bit flattened. I’m disappointed as I did much better elephant eyes.
The cat’s tail was tricky as it was going back and forth as well as up and down at the same time, hence the different degrees of my ellipses. But I didn’t manage to vary them in the right progression. I also missed one of them when drawing the tail’s contour : my precision from the shoulder is not good enough for drawing such short and sharp curves.
For the bear, I tried to mimic your « helmet » from the tiger head example. I also missed the proportions of the nose which is too long.
I tried to draw extra line weight only where it is needed as you requested in your critique.
Thank you for your help and advices.
Thank you for this very detailed review ! A lot of things are now clearer to me (sausages, building 3D shapes on existing shapes...). I will try to put strenght on the points you mentionned for the next lesson.
Thank you very much !
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