conrdaly

https://imgur.com/a/LRfOWLV

Here are my revisions. Disregard the first versions of each animal for your analysis (I put them in there because I just wanted to show that I am not quite as good as each final animal suggests).

I seem to have a hard time visualizing the pelvis mass ( the front mass doesn't seem as hard because the ribcage outlines it).

Thanks again. This is very difficult for me, but your guidance is always very helpful.

https://imgur.com/a/1wjuz1Z

https://imgur.com/a/tx8g2oX

I was wondering if you had a foot/hoof/toe method image from past critiques. If not, don't worry about it at all (I know you are very busy and spend way too much extra time helping me). Feel free to take whatever credits you think is necessary for this revision. I am just so happy to be making progress (even though it is very slow and I am still struggling mightily).

Thank you so much.

I am going to try making a slower pace my main priority (leaving things for another day is torture!).

Whatever you feel is fair with credit payments works for me. I am just happy that you are willing to keep teaching me. I am a very big fan of your teaching style.

Thank you so much. You are a great teacher. I really enjoy how you approach the task of learning to draw.

Hi,

Here is my newest attempt at the insect follow up work you assigned:

https://imgur.com/a/h97kkNa

I was able to focus a little better this time, but my results are still fairly poor. I am having a tough time when I am visualizing and executing the major forms, and it is taking me so much time that I end up performing poorly implementing other concepts (like the sausage legs, building up of simple forms... etc). I was journaling the time I was spending, but it got out of control and I ended up losing track. I spent around a few hours a day for 10 days.

In the past I have taken a very long time to internalize things from this class. It probably took me 750 boxes to have a "break through" when I was able to have any sort of vision for a fake 3-D world. 

I seem to operate better and make bigger improvements once I start treating things as a warm-up (which happened with the boxes). 

For texture, I am not even close to being able to execute it. I get the idea behind it, but I think I will need to do the challenge before I can even get close to pulling some of these textures off.

I am open to follow whatever next steps you think I should take. 

Thank you so much for your help so far.

When you say to draw through my ellipses twice, do you mean the basic forms I am putting down in the beginning? Or do you mean the occasional contour lines, segmentation lines, and intersection lines on legs? Or is it the contour lines on my sausage forms? I thought I wasn't supposed to be drawing around the back side of the contour lines, intersection lines, segmentation lines, and sausage form contour lines. If it is the basic forms, it makes total sense how I should implement it, but if it is about the others should I be "drawing through the form?"

Hi,

I just finished my revisions. I think I made some progress forcing the lessons into my head. Despite this intellectual improvement, my drawings look like they regressed a little. I just started teaching again, and the summer was a much better time for executing. I feel like I have a ton of different ideas I am trying to implement on each drawing, and I lose my focus (and ability) from time to time and I forsake some of them. Sometimes in order to implement a new idea I feel like I have to give it 100% focus, and that is where I sometimes slip up.

Anyway ,thanks again for giving me these directives. I am really enjoying the progress I am making.

Here is the link to my work:

https://imgur.com/a/NUA9xX9

Thank you. I appreciate how detailed your critique was.

Thank you for how much work you put into my critique. That gives me alot of things I can work on.

I have been using the recomended pen tip size. I definitely feel heavey handed some times (which I feel like is a result of the method I use to execute marks, but I am not completely sure about that).

I don't go over anything twice unless you tell me to, but whenever you say to add line weight, I definitely find it very hard to override my primal competitive brain (and end up cheating myself and trying to improve things). I've been trying to quit this habit. Sometimes with boxes I feel like I am learning a little more though when I add the outer line weight and fix it up a little, it feels like I am realizing where it should be.