Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals
2:33 PM, Thursday June 18th 2020
The hardest part of this lesson was definitely wrapping my head around the construction of the muzzles, I still have a lot to learn about it but atleast I have an idea about what to do, especially during the first rat construction I was at a complete loss about how to proceed with it. Keeping things proportionate is also a challenge.
I didn't really add much detailing on these drawings, just trying to design something that might be interpreted as whatever texture the animal's pelt had.
Also, in the last hybrid construction, I didn't really follow the "carving the eye socket" phase of the construction, since I was pretty unhappy with how flat the gecko and frog eyes looked in the previous constructions. Since the geckos eye looks like it juts out of the skull, with muscle wrapping around it, I drew the eyeball first, and added wrapping additional masses to it, which anchored the eye to the skull, although It may be hard to see since the eyes aren't particularly big on that construction.