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Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

12:26 AM, Saturday September 18th 2021

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Good evening,

At last, I've finally finished this lesson. I took a break while I was finishing my shark drawing, so if the quality of my drawing diminishes past the shark, it might be because of that.

Anyways, I have to say, this lesson is on a whole different level than the last. It's much more difficult, specifically drawing the heads/faces. Fortunately, it got easier as I kept drawing more and more.

This lesson took me a long time to complete, probably because I found myself spending so much time adding the final line passes to all of my drawings. I knew I wasn't supposed to do this, yet I found so much enjoyment in seeing the whole thing done that I kept doing it anyways, regardless of time consumption.

Another area where I found some difficulty was the paws. I had to draw a box (lol) to help me draw the lines that would conform the sides of the paws somewhat in the correct perspective. I don't know if I should do this or not. Also, drawing while taking hints from the reference helped me tremendously when arranging the perspective of the body and the position of the legs. Again, I am unaware if I should do this or not.

Please, if you have the time, criticize my work constructively so I can better myself.

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11:29 AM, Saturday December 18th 2021

Were you working digitally or did you draw theconstruction lines with a smaller nib pen then outlined the silhouette with a bigger nib pen.Your sketches are very clean.How were you able to do that??

5:18 AM, Thursday December 23rd 2021

Hello,

I currently use a tablet to draw. It looks clean becuse I lower the transparency on my construction and give the lines a second pass with different line weights. However, this is not something that should be done in this course.

3:41 AM, Saturday December 25th 2021

Oh,Alright.Your sketches hae actually come out to be very very beautiful,especially the animals heads,they have been drawn perfectly.

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10:21 AM, Tuesday January 4th 2022

Hi,definetely focus more on the big shapes and how to arrange the different elipses,cilinders,boxes to make the animal feel more 3D,i know the details are tempting but try not to get lost into them while doing the exercises.

As for using boxes to understand if the planes of the paws are in a correct perspective,is something you should definetely do,when drawing whenever you have a doubt make sure to look at a reference,it's an extremely important thing that often gets overlooked,some people feel like it's cheating,but it's not, you can't learn anything without observing a reference

Keep up the work and good luck

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