Very Rusty here and I feel like i still don't have fundamentals right because if i did my drawing should have turned out maybe better than it is but i know it will come slowly. Im open to specific feedback as i would definitely like to improve.
Thanks In Advance
Hello Heiwa I'm Simon and will be reviewing your lesson!
Organic forms
So it was supposed to be two page of contour curves and not one of ellipses and the other of curves, I'll ask of you to do the second page of contour curves since I know that shouldn't take long :) Don't worry that will be the only revision
Your forms are really good! You are experimenting with the shape the twists and always manage to fit those curves snuggly between each side so really good job on that! I don't have much to add, keep doing warmups before working each time and that's all :)
Insects constructions
I completely understand your worry of feeling rusty but these insects look great!
I think the little "rough work" on that first page is really great and helped you understand some of those 3D forms so I strongly recommend for your next lessons you keep doing little studies like that I'm sure it'll really help!
The volume on most of these are good, great on some like 4 where you can really feel that with all those little studies you really understood the volume of that bug (6,8,11 i also don't have anything to add on them) . For the others I think they work like the fly 5 and 2 are okay but some of those curves that are supposed to give that sense of volume kind of break it a little, so make sure to be really focused for those little bugs that don't have much volume cause very often they'll be the hardest to do since you don't have many lines to work with. I'd have liked to see you work on some of the bugs' legs but that's not a big deal, if you want you can add drawing bugs to your warmups pool and next time you do it you can try to tackle some of those smaller details.
Finally if I could give you a little tip i think you'd benefit taking more time to look at your reference, for n°7 and 9 they're not so complex creatures but you don't have many volumes to work with, so you really want to take the time to look at those basic volumes, maybe put some dots down on your page to make sure you get the proportions right and then do a few curves to give the volume. On n°9 I feel like you may have lost your patience, or weren't in it too much cause some lines are just put flat on top, without being drawn confidently and without wrapping around the edge, and since all the lines on the volume are like that the creature just feels like it's flat where as 11 as a great sense of volume (and some really nice texture too).
So when you get frustrated, take a break, or do some volumes for the legs before trying to rusht the contour curves that could ruin the volume of your drawing.
I think that's about it, I hope that was helpful!
Don't forget to send the second page of sausage forms with contour curves and I'll mark your lesson as complete!
Next Steps:
Provide a second page of organic forms with contour curves good luck!
Hi @SIMONP
I really really appreciate your feedback. Thanks a lot. I 100% agree on dropping points for drawing since all of these bugs, i have tried to "wing it" to get to the right proportion. In fact few of them the whole bigger ones's as you can see it in the rough work itself got the proportions all wrong and hence had to dump em and start new. I will try this for my next exercises.
Alternatively and apparently im not just bad at maths but wrong in counting as well haha.
so Here i attach the remaining pages left behind.
https://imgur.com/a/dab-l4-revision-DXkmfnf
Sorry for the water stains on that image as the board was little wet.
Again i really appreciate your feedback as im doing DAB strickly on getting feedback to improve. Thanks a lot.
You're welcome glad you found the feedback useful :)
Those organic forms with contour curves are great well done!
I'll be marking this as complete and you can move on to Lesson 5 :)
Don't hesitate to answer here whenever you end up posting it I'll be happy to review it!
And don't hesitate to review some Lessons 3 or before those
I saw you already review plenty so that's great :)
Once again well done and good luck moving forward!
Next Steps:
Move on to Lesson 5
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