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10:12 AM, Friday January 15th 2021

I've just completed this lesson. A such it's still fresh in my mind so I can throw in some observations.

Overall, I really the mark making. Your pen strokes are very confident. The various insect legs all came out very well, solid, good slow and you can clearly make out which leg in infront of the other (by contrast my insect are just chaos). Very good idea to take a scan of the raw construction and then of the complete drawing.

I think what you may want to focus more on is observation, like getting the proportions between the different parts (head, abdomen, thorax, wings..) as well as the direction of this part. So for instance, in the first image of the wasp, the abdomen is in the picture is not rounded, it is concave. Likewise the fly's head isn't a just a sphere, it is more heart-shaped.

I can point these things out because they are the same issues I had, plus my really messed up insect legs.

Hope this helps. But on the whole it's really good stuff.

11:32 AM, Friday January 15th 2021

Thank you for looking at my submission! =)

Besides the wasp and the fly (which were done following the demo) did you not find anything worth mentioning about the 10 insects (the actual homework) that I did? Were all 10 insects "really good stuff" in your opinion?

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