11:42 PM, Saturday November 5th 2022
Thanks, Andpie.
Right now it looks like a bit of a coin toss as to whether you apply this shift in degree correctly or have it reversed, so keep that in mind as you move forward.
Rather than keep my sausages straight (as in this photo), I try to bend and twist the sausages towards me and away from me to experiment; but I admit that I get confused about the 3D space & orientation sometimes. I often have in mind what I want to do, but then mess up the execution due to the difficulty of keeping all this information in my head and lack of pen control. I recall that it is discouraged to try to make corrections, even to your mess-ups, as doing so only draws more attention to them.
you’re not always consistent with adding the contour line at the joints, to show how the two sausage forms intersect
Sometimes with leg joints, I feel that the end bulge of the overlapping sausage adequately describes the joint, or the front sausage overlaps the further one and covers the joint. Do I still need to draw the joint intersection if it isn't visible or is already described by the end of a sausage? I have illustrated what I mean about the joints here. I think I need to overlap the sausages more than I have been; I've implemented that in my homework corrections below.
Also, when adding bulges to legs, I recall that Comfy said not to add contours in the middle of a leg, only at joints to avoid stiffening them. Should we add contours to bulges on legs if they break the silhouette?
Per this image, does this mean that my pelican spider's leg bulge was done incorrectly because I added the bulges using sausages rather than wrapping new forms onto the top and bottom of the leg? Comfy did mention not to worry much about leg form, but to focus more on the gesture and flow, but maybe that will be changed in the update. I've noticed in the new demos that very few cross contours are used to describe the additive forms; when adding forms is the intersecting line (where the forms meet) generally enough?
you’re still tracing back over some sections of your silhouette too. Tracing over your existing lines generally results in them becoming more wobbly, and you may accidentally alter the silhouette of your existing forms, undermining their solidity so please refrain from doing that in the future.
If I understand correctly, are you specifically saying I should only darken the lines at the point of overlap and not the entire form that overlaps?
I have made corrections to my constructions per your feedback. I wasn't able to undo the tracing I did to the silhouette, but I'll try to keep in mind going forward to only darken the overlapping points. I did the corrections on my computer with my mouse (I don't have a drawing pad); so the lines are wobbly; but the main point was to show that I understood your feedback.