Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals
3:37 PM, Saturday June 8th 2024
This lesson was quite hard but also fun! Critique is appreciated
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8:05 PM, Saturday January 4th 2025
Hi there! I saw your submission in the queue, so I figured I'd take a look. This is going to be a short review, but mostly because you did such good work here.
Organic Intersections. I see good work here, With logical cast shadows and drawn-through forms. There's a noticeable amount of care put in to ensuring that the sausages are equilateral throughout.
Animals. As I said before, there's really not much to point out here. There's plenty of fantastic care to ensure that additions are 3-dimensional and drape across the forms beneath them. Shadows are tastefully applied, and you work through some very challenging poses with linework that still manages to be understood in spite of the amount of overlapping. I'm especially fond of your pigeons, your rhinos ( I did a couple of these too!), and your tasmanian wolf. But all in all, you went above and beyond to experiment with your subjects and capture more than was required, which is great to see.
So like I said, a short review. I hope you don't find this especially careless or effortless. After a fair bit of searching, I truly didn't find any marks that felt out of place, or anything that couldn't be improved with time and practice, and I feel your understanding of the lesson exceeds the minimum comprehension by a wide margin. Suffice it to say, I'm marking this submission as complete.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Cylinder challenge if you haven't already done so.
11:49 AM, Sunday March 9th 2025
Hello Chieftang, thank you so much for the review! I apologize for replying so late, I forgot about drawabox due to a busy schedule in real life. No worries about this critique sounding low-quality, it's quite the opposite and I'm glad to know that I can move on to the 250 cylinder challenge. Thank you again and have a great day!
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As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.
Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).
Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.
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