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10:14 AM, Wednesday February 1st 2023

Hello! Since umbr didn't answer I'll take over the crit, in the future if something like this happens you can just ping me on the discord and I'll take over it, so you don't have to wait that much time. About your last revision I think you made good progress with the forms.

The main thingy I still see is that some of them are off balance and look like they would fall off, always try to imagine them in their last position, think of them like water baloons, and imagine if they fell over the other sausages until they get stable. Here's a few corrections . Some of the contour curves felt a bit flat as well, so always try to remember the complete ellipse in perspective when drawing them if you aren't already, it helps.

About the animal drawings I more or less agree with what umbr said, overall you've done a good approach and they look solid in general. On some drawings you're doing well with the sausage method, like on the wolves, but on others like on the bears you make some mistakes, like not drawing through all the sausages, or not drawing intersections between forms. Whenever you approach legs, and other similar forms on drawabox you need to use simple organic forms, like on the organic intersections exercise, and they need to adhere to the forms explained in lesson 2. Here's the explanation.

Here are some of the issues explained on your work , given that please do one more deer to check if you got them right and then you're set for lesson 6, good luck and great job! Keep it up!

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12:01 AM, Tuesday February 14th 2023

I thank you both very much for helping me with the reviews!

This time I drew through all the shapes, even the ones on the back.

The ends of my sausages are still somewhat elliptical, due to the hook in my hand when tracing them. I'm trying to improve on that.

I'm still working on subtleties like line weight or intersections of shapes.

Image: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11aIAFchoBs64wkaCiXqJudoJyl4NEsc2?usp=sharing

6:33 PM, Monday February 20th 2023

First of all sorry for the late answer! I got sick so couldn't write critiques for a few days. Now into the critique:

That's better! Only thing now is that whenever you're adding additional forms you're doing it a bit different from how it's explained on the lessons. Here's an example on one of the demos of the website.

And here's an example on your work. Try to always add additional forms as simple as you can, and if you need to add a lot of bulges to your drawing do several of them like i did instead of making a big one.

Overall like I said you did a good job so I'll mark this as complete. Ask any questions if you have them and move on to the cylinder challenge, keep it up!

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250 cylinder challenge

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