UltimateClown

Thank you, I'll make sure to work that into my exercises and warm-ups in the future and keep that criteria in mind.

Sounds good. I'll spend the next couple of days refreshing myself of previous exercises. Thank you.

Alright sounds good I'll continue to go back regularly and check for new/review old material. I just wanted to mention that I'm not trying to take shortcuts when it comes to the material, the eye sockets were drawn with indiviudal lines but I think with my tendency to curve them, they appeared less geometrical and more as an ellipse.

I'll regularly be practicing these animal constructions in my warm-ups in the future however as I do want to continue to refine these to an acceptable level. Thank you.

https://imgur.com/a/lm1rv23

You would be right I was confused on the terminology and thought that I was only to add contour lines onto additional mass. I completely left them out in this exercise now. As per critique, I spent more time studying drawing the head and the development of it along the guide of the eye socket I establish. For a while I assumed that when we talked about simple sausage forms, it was more in reference to the way that we draw sausage forms, rather than them explicitly. I apologize for wasting time with that.

https://imgur.com/a/GMAcUv6

Drawing larger definitely helped. I would prefer to do this in the future so long as it can work with the lesson plans. Only reason why it was so small before was I was trying to guesstimate how much room I would need for two animals, and I was willing to have them be smaller rather than getting clipped off the page.

You mentioned in your critique a general lightness to the original form when compared to what gets overlayed and that the limbs felt disconnected. I do need to get better with drawing the base forms denser, as I tend to go lighter with larger strokes as I'm afraid of pushing down and destroying the nib on the pen, like have many times as I try to reverse my ape-man hand pressure on the page. But with the limbs feeling disconnected, maybe per se arbitrarily laid ovals as base forms, I didn't know whether to work closer to the examples provided in the video demos where they're put down based on observation, or based on connection of adding additional mass onto the base form. On one hand I wanted to do what you have suggested in the past and work from and build up simple forms to complex ones rather than starting with complex shapes, and on the other I didn't want it to feel separate from each other. That's why on the third one I think? It wraps around as an additional mass, as it felt more akin to some of what I've learned in constructional drawing. What is the intended way of constructional drawing that I should use regarding this? I may have also just missed the mark completely and it could have been referring to something else entirely.

I really appreciate this critique going back and making sure my bad habits don't inhibit my progress. I do want to push through them and hopefully what I have here is more reflective of progress towards it, as the last qualities I want my drawings to have are sloppy and confused. Thank you.

Ah okay. I've junked pages halfway through the drawing as I felt there was no way to resurrect it with accuracy, so I'll keep that in mind. Thank you!

Thank you. For some reason every time I read through the critique before working I interpreted the leg part to mean (only use sausage forms in these exercises, but when we want to correctly draw the legs as forms this is what we'll do.)

I understand what you mean now when you're talking about adding and subtracting in 3d space. I'll try my best to implement that in the future. Though the concept is still quite abstract and fresh to me.

Yeah this is pretty close to it. There's going to be lots of mistakes in the earlier pages, but in the last 100 boxes things really tighten up and you really gain a keen eye on how to avoid those situations.

The one thing I wanted to respond on corrections. Not sure if it counts as corrections, but in the further construction lessons, adding additional 3d mass onto a form is more than acceptable so long as it wasn't to cover up a haphazardly drawn line.

https://imgur.com/a/Hj3rpQN

As you suggested I took extra precaution to ghost every line. My main priorities in these were to establish Those bases you spoke of and to use the original shapes as the true form with minor additions rather than obliviously ending up drawing over it and creating new less 3-dimensional forms. I also did my best to keep any limb sausage like, though on occassion my hand did slip and ened up creating unbalenced shorter ends to it. This was a part that I struggled with last time, as I was confusing myself over how they should look, and whether I was supposed to go over them with two passes.

Thank you and I look forward to your critique as always.

https://imgur.com/a/vKI1zed

With this one I spent a couple pages practicing leaves before committing to the one I would submit. I see what you mean now with leaving ends open. As for the other constructural plant drawings, I tried to keep them restricted to their form while still using additive and subtractive contour lines to indicate texture, so I hope that worked. And of course, I ghosted every line.

If I need to submit more revisions I would be happy to use another token for critique so it will be worth your time, I don't want to feel that you need to pass me on this lesson without displayed understanding of the concepts presented.

Thank you.