Could you point me to where you read that? I do sometimes change my view on things as my own understanding of the material develops, but based on how I've approached this stuff for some time now, feathers are absolutely still solid masses and should be drawn as I explained in my critique. Nothing should be drawn as flat shapes.
"I've also added a mass to represent what is mostly fur along the side of the head. I'm not too keen on making this appear solid - it definitely has volume, and probably has some muscle there, but because most of it is likely fur I'm still leaving it a little lighter and free of additional contour lines."
This was at the end of the wolf demo. I guess I miss interpreted this resulting in what I did with the chicken and lamp.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when doing new demonstrations and further updating that lesson (when I eventually get to it).
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