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Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

12:28 PM, Friday February 7th 2025

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Finally done with chapter 4

Thanks in advance for reviewing it!

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3:31 PM, Thursday March 27th 2025

SANS here!

I'll get right in with your organic forms using contour curves. Your contour curves are drawn with assurance, care, and control, and you're adhering closely to the traits of simple sausages. You're also incorporating a pleasing change in degree, which makes the contour curves broader as they get farther away from the observer. Excellent work.

Moving on to your insect creations, it must be said that they began a little weak, or more precisely, simplistic, but they undoubtedly improved over the set.

I think you should put more information on your bugs, to make them more three dimensional.

Your forms are scratchy and lack confidence. Once you put your pen down, don't pick it up again in short intervals. Make a confident stroke.

You are outlining your bugs. While line weight can be used to distinguish between foreground and background, it can also be overused which can turn the drawing into a flat shape. Use it a little more sparingly.

In a lot of your forms you aren't sticking to the sausage shapes for the legs. It is recommended in this course to draw your legs using sausage shapes.

All in all, a solid submission, I'll mark this as complete

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4:18 PM, Thursday March 27th 2025

Thanks for the critique sans!

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