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9:56 PM, Monday February 24th 2020

Alright! Don't worry about that! You've already improved on understanding the concepts on this lesson!

I'm going to go over your drawings one by one, the first 2 exercises, the sausages, they've improved, but you still got a bit of bulging, remember, they're 2 balls connected by a tube of consistent width. I redlined some of your sausages so it remained a bit more clear.

For your insect drawings, they have certainly improved, but I still want to point a few things out.

The first one is overuse of contour lines. When drawing the legs, it is enough with drawing a single contour line in the intersection of the sausages. Adding more will make the drawing look more confusing, so don't do it. Draw also through your forms. It's important that, even if it isn't shown in the subject, you draw where the forms intersect. For example, in your mantis, you didn't show how the neck intersected with the body, or where did the legs come from. I drew a bit over your drawing to show how to approach the intersections thingy, both between sausages, and between body parts.

Pointed out more things here. It's mainly the same concept, but just to make sure it's clear. Draw through all your forms. I need to be able to see where the legs come from, where do the body masses intersect, and see all the forms of your subjects.

Next Steps:

I can see clear improvement, you're doing great! But I want to see 2 more insect drawings again, keeping in mind what I said and drawing through your forms. Good luck on your last drawings, and keep up the good work!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
11:12 PM, Thursday February 27th 2020

Hey man,

Sorry for the delay been down with a cold the past couple days. Good to take a break from DaB once in awhile to recharge the batteries.

Back on the wagon though and took a crack at those bug revisions. Drawings are located here. https://imgur.com/a/D76v3UY

I tried something different with these this time. I drew a lot lighter first to get the proportions right then went back over. Not sure if that is breaking any rules. But it really helped.

As always thank you for your continued feedback and support. I am fully dedicated to completing DaB then moving back to 2d Digital Painting which is my ultimate goal. This community has been so fantastic.

11:48 PM, Thursday February 27th 2020

Hi there!

Starting lighter first is something you want to avoid when doing drawabox drawings. When making your starting forms, they should be a part of the final drawing, so they should have the same lineweight as other lines.

Lineweight on some lines over other lines should not be added just for the parts that are on the final drawing. Add only lineweight with confident lines to overlaps or parts that are closer to the viewer to make them pop up. Otherwise keep them the same lineweight.

To help you get down the correct proportions, you can place dots describing the general proportions, when placing the dots, you can worry about angles, negative spaces etc, to make the proportions as accurate as you can. Then, you can draw your forms using the dots as reference without having to worry about proportions.

Adding to that I just want to comment on a few more things. Always draw through your forms, and draw the intersections between sausage joints and every form, as you can see here

And be sure you accelerate your contour lines. You can hook them just like in the sausage exercises to help you do it. I showed here an example where your contours didn't accelerate enough. Normally you want to reduce the number of contours as much as possible in drawabox drawings. Only add them when you feel there has been a change in the form and you need to show it.

For legs, normally with a single contour line in the joints, (the contour I mentioned earlier) is enough, as that contour, because of being at the joint is particularly strong.

Next Steps:

Alright, so I'm marking this as complete. Be sure to draw through your forms on next drawings, and try to think about the things I said.

Don't try to do first a light drawing and then doing another pass neither.

As I said, your starting marks should be part of the final drawing just like any other mark, because constructional marks are just as important as the final drawing marks.

Good job and keep it up! Your next step is lesson 5, good luck!

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