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12:49 PM, Tuesday May 11th 2021
edited at 1:20 PM, May 11th 2021

Okay, I really like seeing that you are experimenting with the exercise and I think that you are really close, though I want you to check out this correction and compare it with your exercise. While your forms are wrapping more convincingly to each other and feel more solid, they are not wrapping around the silhouette. Remember that in order for a sausage to go over the other side and stop being visible for us (even though we have to draw through all of our forms), it needs to be behind something, and in the case of this sausages it needs to wrap all around the form, and it starts falling to the other side, once it's over the silhouette.

I've highlighted just the 3 forms that directly fall on top of the big base form because the more top one depend on how this first ones position themselves. Notice that you just need to draw them a little higher so they match the silhouette!

Regarding cast shadows, they are much better, though don't worry if you can't exactly realize how the cast shadows fall on form, this is something you will practice more with shading.

So, one more page, I don't wanna say it's the last since I kind of jinxed it last time, but I feel positive that you are getting close.

Go get it.

Next Steps:

1 more page, remember how forms wrap around other forms silhouette.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 1:20 PM, May 11th 2021
1:42 PM, Wednesday May 12th 2021
3:57 PM, Wednesday May 12th 2021
edited at 5:34 PM, May 12th 2021

Now they are looking pretty good, they are wrapping around each other believably and you are using quite some degrees changes on those sausage to make them more believable, don't worry too much about cast shadows, just keep going at them and they will make sense someday. Here are some minor corrections.

Now, we are going to see why we took so much time to practice this concepts, I'm gonna ask you for two pages of animal constructions, whit just one construction in each page so they are big. I would advice to give a second read to all the feedback I gave you at the beginning of this critique and give it a go, we are gonna see how they turn out!

Next Steps:

2 more animal constructions.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 5:34 PM, May 12th 2021
1:25 PM, Tuesday May 18th 2021
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