7:38 AM, Tuesday May 24th 2022
Thank you very much for the kind words!
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Zuzie
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10:17 AM, Tuesday January 4th 2022
Thank you very much!
8:14 AM, Tuesday November 23rd 2021
Thank you very much for the critique! Regarding the object you mentioned, the surface was flat, not slanted but because my box came out a bit wonky it didn't look as it should. The right thing to do would have been to treat it as slanted from that point onwards, like you mentioned, but it didn't really occur to me, I kept going with it as if it was flat. I'll keep it in mind for future mistakes.
Thank you again!
7:42 AM, Saturday May 15th 2021
Thank you very much!
7:44 PM, Thursday March 11th 2021
Hello,
Thank you very much for the detailed critique.
I'm not sure if my issue is that I don't pay attention to the reference enough, I think it's more that I don't know how to divide the shapes that I see into individual masses that get added on top, and then I try to simplify what I saw into a mass that makes sense for me, resulting in animals looking goofy.
I tried to study my reference more, but I still feel confused by some shapes of individual animals. I hope some improvement can be seen:
9:20 AM, Monday December 21st 2020
Hello,
Thank you very much for the detailed critique.
I was and am trying to build on top of existing structures but I have a hard time imagining how the additional masses work in 3D space and how to translate that into a 2D image.
Regarding the sausage method, I always had it in the front of my mind when building the legs, I wasn't trying to disregard this method but it's clear that the legs I drew didn't look like sausages. In the instances where that was the case, was it the shape that was wrong? Or were the constructions too stiff? I'd like to where I went wrong to avoid it in the future.
Here are 4 more pages of insect constructions. I tried to implement all your feedback as best as I could.
5:14 PM, Monday November 16th 2020
Thank you very much! I'll do my best to try and see the cast shadows based on the surface of the texture.
10:28 AM, Monday November 16th 2020
Thank you very much!
I do have a question though, regarding textures. What do you do when there aren't any cast shadows (or at least I can't seem to be able to see any)? For example a sliced kiwi.
9:40 PM, Sunday November 1st 2020
Thank you!
5:49 PM, Monday October 5th 2020
Will do. Thank you again!
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