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Thanks for the feedback, and I apologize for some of the more blatant breaking of the rules. The dog head was more of a spontaneous exercise, but I should have treated it with better care.

The parts I felt I struggled the most on were anything to do with the legs and the head.

Working through these, I noticed that I have a hard time visualizing how a stroke will look until it is actually down, regardless of my ghosting attempts, but I may just not be thinking far enough ahead. This was evident in my leg forms and masses. Most intersections I used on the legs and feet made them present the illusion of coming out towards the viewer, when they should have appeared to have faced the direction of the animal's body.

This also applies with the head, where I would try to plan out my eye sockets, ghost and place them, and then realize they looked so awkward or offset that it pretty much made further construction a lot more difficult. Usually, I think the I placed sockets were just too small or I couldn't really detect them in the reference well.

I think I've answered some of these points just writing this all down, where I wasn't considering the leg intersections like I would an ellipses' minor axis in space, but if you have any additional pointers there, I will gladly accept.

Do you have some strategies for determining intersections in organic forms on heads? Probably just requires me to plan harder and put more practice in, but tips are always appreciated.

Also, when putting in the sausage for the main body, is these ever a time where pinching the sausage is acceptable? Or is it just better to plan for a cut into the form if absolutely necessary? There were some references that I avoided simply because I was worried about having to cut into the form later where I felt I could avoid a pinch or cut.

https://imgur.com/a/80YVyN5

I hesitantly respond with these.

I have a lot of thoughts and opinions on the work within. I'll keep my questions for after your review.

Thanks in advance.

Additional Homework: https://imgur.com/a/rmgr3jm

Hopefully it shows some sort of improvement.

Thank you for the thorough review.

I feel it was pretty spot on. I wasn't ghosting enough in some spots, and I certainly wasn't following the branch guidelines out far enough.

The mushroom was something I struggled with trying to get its perspective and probably should have tossed it out.

Somewhat mixed feelings with how the latest came out as I feel I am still having some trouble adequately using line weight as when I apply it I am struggling to taper it correctly back into the initial lines. Shapes of leaves still needs some work too for sure.

The last one I added a re-printed version that I went over with a brush pen mostly for myself as I was finding the right side to be very confusing to read.

Thank you for the feedback.

I will definitely work on the contours. I think I was focusing too much during the exercise on making the lines fit in the forms more than considering the degree they would make if they were drawn as an ellipse.

I'll try to work in some texture work as well. I really did struggle with determining the difference between shadow and outline. Especially in things like the cracked mud where I'd see the very dark breaks between the forms and my brain couldn't see them as anything but shadows. Aren't these deep cracks shadows, or am I perceiving this incorrectly? This is the kind of thinking that had me going in circles during these texture exercises.

Organic intersections I'll try to work on more perpendicularly. I tried to think of the forms as long bean bags that would collapse around the curves that they rested on. Was it incorrect of my to draw all the forms first, and then focus on the shadows? Or should it have been tackled form -> shadow -> repeat?

Again, thank you for the thorough feedback. I will make sure to refer back to your critique when working these into my warmup and self-study :)

Oops just noticed I missed the back lines on the plotted perspective. My bad!

I am a little confused by your last comment, did you mean Organic Perspective? Because if so, I think I was confused by the lesson details a little bit.

"Now with one line of each set drawn, we're going to add another to each line. As you're drawing this, think about how you want each set to converge and try and think about (in rough terms) where the vanishing point is going to be for each set."

I think I interpreted this as "draw a line off them and think about the convergence, without drawing points." Anyways, my bad, I should have read a bit more closely.

Thank you for the feedback!