Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

5:28 PM, Thursday April 30th 2020

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I think I struggled with trying to communicate what direction the planes are facing by over doing it with shading, like in the case with the big beetle. As you can see in the reference here, it has very subtle edges on its armor which are very difficult to illustrate despite factoring it into my construction somewhat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylotrupes_socrates#/media/File:Xylotrupes_socrates_(Siamese_rhinoceros_beetle).jpg

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