Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids
11:45 AM, Sunday January 23rd 2022
Drawing insects was quite fun and I am proud how some of them were constructed.
I have added six original drawings and 4 demo drawings. I have also attached a reference collage which features the references for the original drawings (+unused images).
Some remarks:
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I tried to draw bigger as noted in the critique of lesson 3. Still, I could not handle drawing small ellipses from the shoulder. I like to lock my wrist and just ghost anyway in these cases.
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My legs sausages sometimes look very static, but some insect legs are just that and not curved -- just a straight line basically.
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Taking a side view shot as reference is a bad idea for 3D construction. Wish I had a hint for this before.
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Sometimes my pen is not drawing immediately, which is sometimes OK for ghosting but frustrating for contour curves.
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Drawing insect wings without a constructional framework feels "wrong", but this how it is demo'd. I tried once to use the leaf approach for it on the dragonfly.