Hello! I'm going to correct your assignment for this lesson.

Shapes with contours:

• Both those with ellipses and contour curves are fine. In both cases they remain aligned to their central axis, and their curvature and degree change according to their position; all excellent.

Insects:

• In general everything looks very correct. Your strokes are clean and the shapes are legible.

The perspective or depth that can be seen in insects like the centipede is quite admirable, also the patience in drawing all its legs, hehe.

• The use of lineweight and contour curves to accentuate the shapes is quite adequate. They gave a great sense of solidity and depth.

Likewise the drawing on the silhouette of the wings or legs gave more character to each insect, very nice.

• A few times you went overboard with the areas of pure black. As in the ant and wasp of this page .

In the ant you drew shadows pointing both on its left and right, which takes away the constancy of the light, we lose a bit of realism.

Also, areas like its eye and pincers (beak... mouth?) should not be completely black. Maybe in your reference they look like that, but in this course we largely ignore the local color of the objects. That way we put more concentration on the three-dimensional shapes.

In the case of the wasp is that the areas of black have flattened the basic shapes. For example on its abdomen, that black stripe did not wrap correctly around the shape underneath and has made it two-dimensional.

As we can see in any case, the use of long black areas can be risky and has to be moderate, very thoughtful.

• I will mark your lesson as complete, as everything is well worked out and looks clean. Just remember to be careful when using pure black areas.

Keep up the good work in the next lesson.