Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids
3:51 AM, Friday July 1st 2022
This is my homework that I have done on the insects.
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6:23 AM, Saturday July 2nd 2022
Hello Rainbow, i’d be handling the critique for your lesson 4
First, i notice that you didn’t use the right tools for this lesson, this is well explained here https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/4 that past lesson 1 and the 250 boxes challenge you should be using a 0.5 fineliner
Organic Forms With Contour Curves
Here you misunderstood the exercise you did one page with contour curves and the other one with contour ellipses, just like in lesson 2. However here you’re asked to do both pages of organic forms with only contour curves. https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/curves
Most of your organic forms are not consistent, keep in mind that your organic shapes should only consist of two equally sized spheres connected by a tube of consistent width as viewed here https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage
Your contour curves are too shallow and they don’t hook around, when drawing your contour curves you should try to overshoot them just a bit to help you visualize it in 3d and not as a flat line sitting on a flat shape https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/shallow
Your contour curves are all of the same degree, you should give your ellipses a bit of a shift in their degrees, not doing this will really flatten your forms https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/degree
insect construction
The black flet pen you’re using makes is hard for me to see what is going on so i will only talk about the first ones
On the first one the details are hiding most of the construction, remember to use texture carefully place it where you want to draw attention to, using it everywhere and filling zones with black will only add noise to your drawing
On the second one your lines are really wobbly, you are using ellipses instead of sausages for the legs and outside of that i don’t really see any construction
I’d like to remind you to take your time with this course, whatever is your goal if you’re doing this course then i assume you must want to improve at drawing but it’s not a race, the first to come out on the other side here is not the one that is rewarded, so slow down, make sure you’re reading carefully through the material and have the right tools to make the best work you are capable of doing right now
Next Steps:
i would honestly recommend you to restart from lesson 0 and pay more attention to the materials, but that's just my opinion.
do one more page of organic forms with contour curves with the appropriate tools
do one more insect construction without details with the appropriate tools
4:25 AM, Monday July 18th 2022
Here is my make up homework. I hoped they turned out well.
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