Hi. I think I have improved with my sausages and drawing legs in general but i keep struggling with details. Also there are times that i don't know how to reflect specific complex forms like the bottom side of monkey hopper's head or ant's mouth.
Details is about looking at many pictures of the insect to get an understanding of how it all works. A single picture is not enough. you need the 360° understanding to build the object.
once u understand the small details you can build them on top of the head, thorax,, abdomen like in the intersectión exercise.
IMHO. You should also work on the proportions of your shapes. Some are considerably off and give your builds a cartoon look.
Next Steps:
perform the following exercise for your mantidfly and the ant drawings.
In photoshop or similar overlap your drawing to the reference photo to get a sense of where you are off in your construction.
Then repeat both drawings with improved proportions. Avoid details if desired. Just basic body shapes and legs is fine.
Sorry for taking so long to complete this. I think I improved on the proportions even if there are parts a little bit off. Also I have improved in drawing them with the perspective they are posing in the reference instead of drawing them "2D" as in my previous submission.
much better!! when you move on to lesson 5 try to perform this step to give it more of a 3d look.
https://drawabox.com/lesson/4/2/step5
lesson 4.complete!
BTW. Since you mention that you do not know how to handle detail in some parts of mantidfly... here is my take on the same picture. I just happened to get it done today :p
Mantidfly https://imgur.com/gallery/eXZsIOy
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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