osbornnick

woohoo! Thank you dio! I did totally forget about the rhino demo you shared by the time I was working on the cat yesterday. Thank you for the reminder! The multiple-masses-to-achieve-inward-curve makes SO much sense and it looks remarkably better. I'll try to work it into my practice. I think I have a tendency to rush to the complete form, trying to achieve too much in each individual addition. Baby steps! Onto the next challenge!!

Dio!!! You've managed to meet the high bar you set in my lesson 4 critique, your writing is thorough and very valuable. Thank you again for providing such excellent feedback. I've done my best to understand and implement the changes you suggest. Here are the 4 pages of animal constructions: https://imgur.com/a/1aIFVgV

I concentrated on:

1. NO ALTERING SILHOUETTES

2. EVERY addition being a 3d form (this is hard on heads! The "helmet" method shared in the tiger head demo is how I'm trying to do it, but somehow they always end up as 2d silhouette changes.)

3. clarifying overlaps with the minimal amount of line weight (instead of outlining the whole damn silhouette, see point #1)

4. using sausages for legs. This was especially hard, I find breaking the legs into their individual shapes (like front of leg muscle, back of leg muscle, etc) really hard.

Holy hell! This critique is out of this world!! Thank you so much! Particularly the demo of drawing additive 3d forms on my own submission. I was just thinking "how would this manifest in my own drawings", and to be given an explicit example is chefs kiss. Wow. Also special shout-out to your supplying links to the relevant DAB lessons. Awesome.

I absolutely have struggled with the concept of texture vs decoration. I'll re-visit the sections you suggested.

Thanks again for the excellently thorough review. This is the best critique I've received so far, and I seriously value your efforts.

Cheers

fuck this is cool, nice

I like the perspective on the fan blades!