It was really interesting one for sure! Some of the insects are goofy and wonky, some of them are really terrifying. I really like bugs with medieval-armor-like carapace but sometimes its really difficult to understand where their abdomen and thorax is. As always, thanks for your critique and time!
Hi there! I saw your review in the queue, so I figured I'd take a look:
Organic Forms and Contours. Right off the bat I'm seeing good form construction, no wobbly lines or any particular stray marks. I think your minor axes kind of skew noticeably high or low on a few of these, not really a rampant problem; just something to be aware of if you weren't already. Your contours are mostly immaculate, and make sense as the sausage bends and rotates through the space. I do think you could experiment a little more with widening the degree of the ellipse to show a sausages back-facing side reach more dramatically away from the viewer. Here's a sketch that I made for another student that demonstrates what I'm talking about as far as widening the degree of the contours.
Insects without Texture. Okay, so browsing through these, I'm not seeing too much to really comment on. I believe you're using good confident lines and applying good construction habits to your bugs. You're also building up your sausage legs with organic forms. Among these non-textured bugs, I especially like you weird bug with the doofy snoot, and the construction on that beetle with the three horns is especially nice.
The only thing I want to point out here is that these bugs ought to have a cast shadow outline to show their position in planar space, otherwise it looks like they're floating in the page, which, while funny to think about, is discouraged.
Insects with Texture. Now with the second half of the assignments, You're doing a great job applying texture implicitly. I also appreciate the effort it took to show the bug before you applied the texture to it. There is one bug, #5 I believe, where the markings on the bug's abdomen are filled in. I believe these are supposed left outlined so that the forms beneath them are unobstructed.
That aside, I want to reiterate that you did a great job with these. Your use of cast shadows with texture is nothing short of exemplary, and I applaud your work on this lesson.
Next Steps:
Move on to Lesson 5 if you haven't done so already. Good luck to you!
Omg, Hi Chieftang! Wasn't expecting anyone to review my work except Elodin but a welcome one for sure!
Yeah you are right about my minor axis skewing a bit high and low every now and then. I am aware of it and working through it with warmups daily. I think its my impatience mostly ^^. Thanks for a diagram for organic forms, i will experiment with them more with widening the degree of the ellipse.
About my bugs. Yeah, i think they came really decent, maybe some proportions were a bit rough but i really like how they ended up, especially wasp(number 4 with texture) and wings of mosquito-ish insect(the last one). But there is plenty of space to work on with applying additive construction methods and solving texture problems.
Again thanks for your time and kind words. I really put a lot time and effort into this one and i really glad that someone is appreciating my work and giving me some advices. I will move onto the lesson 5 and try to look through problems that you mentioned in critique. Merry Christmas and happy new year!
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