brettandrew

Thank you for the great critique and for finding my work worth a passing grade.

Yes, this lesson is clearly in an evolution. Some demos are saying all legs should be 2D, they are clearly from a long time ago. Then comes the demos where the legs closest to the view should use the sausage technique and the back legs can be just indications Like here -> https://drawabox.com/lesson/5/6/donkey That is the advice I followed for the pony legs, since I did that early on and then as I evolved I started to do all 4 legs sausage like (while there was no such example that I saw in the entire lesson).

That line on the neck of my bobcat is the hind leg sticking up over the neck (https://wildwnc.org/animals/bobcat/) shading is the best way to make that happen rightly i think but maybe some contour lines would have made it more clear?

Thanks again!!

Brett

Oh my gosh, thank you!! And thanks for your great advice, I did take it to heart. ;-)

Here are my revisions.

Hi, thanks for the detailed critique, I will dig in and try to apply your advice in the revisions.

But you are wrong about me planning how many drawings I want on the page....I am absolutely not doing that. And I did draw larger than the last time.

Further, what I did was draw from different perspectives, and drawing from the front and back is, to me anyway, hard to pull off and I practiced a lot on the side to make it happen (I was trying in the sausages on page 2 to have a different perspective, the kind you need for drawing an insect from the front.) and I am pleased with the result, actually. And drawing from the front or back perspective not only is more challenging but also uses less space and so they nicely fit into a small place. I am glad I did that exercise.

Ok, I will come back with my revisions in a few weeks.

Brett

Hi, thank you.

Brett

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13TuVJ__56V54HZNGbvgGPHsQjtpUCmuU/view?usp=drive_link

Thank you for the comprehensice reply full of great advice, and thank you for finding my work good enough to pass onto lesson 3.

As for the ellipses in the organic forms, I did have a strategy in mind that I thought I learned from the material here (but I could be wrong about that), and that was to have the ellipse with least degree in the middle and the degree increased as one moves out from the center - on both sides.

If you look closely I put in a cast shadow or 2 in with the opossums but I agree is was pretty lame on that point.

Anyway, I really appreciate you and your generous and intelligent spirit. In these troubled times it is people like you that make life so enjoyable and inspiring. So thank you.

Brett Miller

Thank you for your help. I will do as you say.

Here is the follow-up assignment you gave me. I did as you said with the ellipses, I drew with much more confidence and trust. I myself find the result much better. Thank you for the help.

Thank you Mada for the critique, it was valuable and I am so happy that I got the harder assignments more or less correct. I will get on to doing those follow up assignments and come back to you when I am complete.

Will you now be my forever TA for the rest of my time in this course?

One thing I wanted to point out, and I am not trying to be argumentative, just mention it in case I have misunderstood.

You wrote to me:

"You've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective in the plotted perspective. I did see some skewed back vertical lines here and there, which is usually caused by an accumulation of human error as you plot more and more lines. I assume that's the case and you understand that every vertical line is straight in 2 point perspective. Even if the points are not aligned correctly, try to find a middle ground and draw it as vertical as you can."

But here I believe Uncomfortable gives specific instructions to let those back edges be wonky because seeing that gives good information.

Do I misunderstand something?

Again, not being argumentative. ;-)