Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids
8:05 AM, Wednesday June 22nd 2022
i hate insects but bunny spider was sort of cute ????
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9:17 AM, Thursday June 30th 2022
Hello Mei, i’d be handling the critique for your lesson 4
Organic Forms With Contour Curves
Most of your organic forms are swelling and don’t keep a consistent width, very often you draw shapes that continually widens like ellipses, 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
The degrees of your contour curves is all the same, because of that your forms seems to look very flat, you should give your ellipses a bit of a shift in their degree as you run through the length of the form https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/degree
Your lines are hesitant and wobbly, keep in mind to use your shoulder with a locked wrist to draw your lines, having confident and smooth lines will improve the solidity and believability of your forms https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/3/smooth
Insect Construction
it’s a shame that you didn’t provided the references you used here it would have been really helpful but anyway
You’re drawing really small, Drawing small makes things harder for us. it limits our ability to think through spatial problems. I would recommend you to take a full page for each insect that you’re drawing.
Most of the time you draw your legs with stretched spheres, you should build your legs using sausage forms https://drawabox.com/lesson/4/2/sausages
In your leaf beetle, cicada and your last one you drew legs that we’re not supposed to see through the body of the insects, i don’t have the references so i can’t tell if you’re entirely making the legs up or not but if we don’t see the legs on the reference then there’s no need to draw it, doing so will only add noise to our drawing
Next Steps:
do one more page of organic forms with contour curves trying to use sausage forms.
do one more page of insect construction with the insect taking the whole page
1:26 AM, Monday July 18th 2022
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZiLJINT2_7otc5NMBL6Aiq0deFMrsnQJ
sausages are really my downfall TT. thank you for the critique!
7:01 AM, Wednesday July 20th 2022
i think you could have made this insect way bigger putting your page at a vertical angle.
your sausages looks better! they still lack solidity and they don't quite look 3d but i think it's enough to let you go on lesson 5, there you will use sausages a LOT! so take this as an opportunity to learn and get better at it.
best of luck
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