9:24 PM, Sunday December 10th 2023
Hello Koolestani,
I also drew the parts of legs that hid behind the body of these creatures. Any tip about the same?
Uncomfortable discusses this in the lesson intro video from around the 21 minute mark.
I corrected it in the green metallic beetle because earlier they were also just shapes extending off of existing base form.
You are quite right, I made a mistake here, and for that I apologise. I've conferred with Uncomfortable, he recommends applying things a little differently.
"In terms of what we see here the more "complete" form of the carapace that Dio had added here isn't correct. It basically renders the original mass moot, because it replaces it in its entirety. We don't want to completely replace things if we can help it (really the only situation where we do is when merging the rib cage and pelvis into a sausage in lesson 5, where the rib cage/pelvis serve to establish the ends of the final form, so they still serve a purpose. In this case, starting with a sphere doesn't help us in that kind of manner, it just gets completely replaced.
Instead, when we build up every individual bit of complexity with their own additional masses, considering how they attach to the existing structure rather than replacing it (as Uncomfortable shows here), we're given a lot more subtlety and nuance in terms of how it impacts the object's silhouette, making the whole thing more solid. This also means that we can't just "smooth" things out to achieve a perfect result - every step we take to solve a problem (to get to our desired result) will never take is directly there - it takes us in that direction, but in so doing gives us more (smaller) problems to solve along the way.
This largely comes back to the fact that the drawings we do throughout this course are exercises. None of this is a "how to get from A to B to C to your completed pretty drawing". These are exercises that force our brains into solving 3D spatial puzzles, to navigating the relationships between the forms at play, and to rewire our understanding of how they relate to one another in that 3D space despite being drawn on a flat page."
As I stated before, this is something you will continue to practice into lesson 5, as designed by the lesson structure. As such, its not really permitted for a student to decide to submit revisions if they were not assigned.