Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

2:50 PM, Wednesday November 10th 2021

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Finally was able to finish lesson 4 after so long! I wasn't able to dedicate as much time and efforts this time due to college and stuff and also me being super lazy...so sorry about that I guess. Textures were probably the part I found the most annoying and difficult out of all the stuff. Thanks for taking the time to critique my work!

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12:46 AM, Thursday November 11th 2021

Starting with your organic forms, the contour curves and ellipses are coming along pretty well , but you can improve them and try to stick to the characteristics of simple sausages.

Now moving to your insect constructions I can notice a few things.

In the spider drawing, you don't use the sausages as you should, remember that the allow for a flowing rhythm, it is the only case where I notice this but important to point out.

Here a quick reminder of the sausage method.

You make a good use of shading, but seem to slip into form shading in some cases like the ladybug, remember that we don't make use of it during the course.

Finally, I think you're showing a really good grasp of how construction is built up from simple to complex, and how the new elements you add as you build things up relate to the existing structure. So good job.

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6:08 AM, Thursday November 11th 2021

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