Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals
9:41 AM, Sunday January 2nd 2022
I'll try to be short.
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Cast shadows(shadows in general)
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Heads (mostly facing forward)
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Fur/hair
Those are the main problems that I'm facing in every drawing.
Shadows are hard, especially when I do them in the organic intersections and textures. When you have one sausage, form it's easy, but when you add another, and then another one losing track of them becomes easy. It's like trying to draw the shadows of a bug net. The ring that holds the net is easy(a circle and a stick), but the shadow of the net is not so because it's more like texture.
The only trouble I have with the animal heads is when they are, facing me forward. The deer is a perfect example.
In the first four pages, you will see some hatching lines, some of which are done on purpose(I just tried to copy the image a bit, knowing that shouldn't be my priority).
On the silhouette of the animals, you might notice fur being drawn by zig-zagging, but it's not.
The reason it looks like that was because each line was drawn in the same direction. I began to understand it after the goat and the horse.
Note: the scales on the first fish do not break the silhouette because that's how I saw them in the reference(nice and round).
Thanks for reading. Any feedback is appreciated. If I need to redraw/redo something, just say the magic word.