Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

7:39 AM, Wednesday April 6th 2022

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Hey,

here's my lesson 4.

It was harder than I thought, but got easier with practice.

Thank you for taking a look!

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7:36 PM, Thursday April 17th 2025

Hello, I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your lesson 4!

I want to start by saying that your submission is really well done. There's nothing to comment regarding the quality of your lines. I can see that you are adhering to the principles of lesson 1. Regarding the textures, you didn't adhere to an important rule, which is to capture only cast shadows, but texture isn't the priority at all in this lesson, and that may have been added at a later point than when you did lesson 4 since... it was three years ago. Now, these are my comments on what could have been improved:

  1. Some of your forms don't look 3D. On some cases you recur to flat shapes (example: spikes in your haverstman construction). Remember that all of what we are capturing exists in 3D, so we must construct it. Using 2D shapes breaks the illusion we are trying to create. Your owlfly larva feels particularly flat (but to be honest, that's not on you... that insect is just like that) and one of the reasons is that instead of an additive construction for the head, you cut into your forms.

  2. There are forms that could have started out simpler. For example, in your construction #4, you used a conic shape for the head and the thorax. You could started with a ball and added forms until getting the desired shape.

  3. In your sausage with ontours exercise, the sausages should be uniform. They also should have been uniform for the legs of your insects.

Overall, your constructions are very well done! Congratulations :) You had suggested to give you revisions given that your submission is old, but I'm hesitant to do so given their quality! Still, I will assign two constructions so you can apply my feedback.

Next Steps:

2 insect constructions please :)

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
8:58 AM, Friday April 18th 2025

Hi Joxmarf! Thank you for your critique!

It helps a lot :D

I never realized until now that I was breaking the shadow rule - thank you!! I did my best to use cast shadows only in these two and not distort the sausage forms.

For the scorpion’s fused abdomen and thorax I tried to use an ellipsoid and a bent box like in the scorpion demo.

I hope the three points you mentioned are covered a bit better now.

Link: https://imgur.com/a/KsP1gfN

11:04 PM, Friday April 18th 2025

Ahh these are so awesome! Well done :D my only comments are to not overuse contour lines (the more you add, the less effective each individual contour line is) and to not forget the intersection between the sausages for the legs, as they convey how the leg is folding.

Next Steps:

:) Congrats.

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