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Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

10:50 AM, Tuesday February 9th 2021

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Hello,

Thank you so much for your time.

I hate insects so it took me a while to get used to look at them.

I am really happy to be done with it.

Thank you again.

Have a nice day!

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3:26 AM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021

Good job completing another lesson!

To me to be honest, it looked like you were rushing:

  1. Organic shapes--the cross contours are too straight in the middle. Try to visualize it wrapping around a round 3-d shape. Also you neglected to vary the degree as they go along the shape based on the perspective. You should go back and reread the directions and practice that one again at least as a warm up. It's really important.

  2. Mostly you only did one construction per page--it's not specified but if you're filling up pages it's better to do more. The more you practice the more you will get out of it.

Personally, I think you should go back and do more constructions, but technically you did the page count so I'm going to mark this as complete.

Next Steps:

Either go back and work more on this or proceed to the next lesson. Up to you.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
9:09 AM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021

Dear WAXWERK,

Thank you so much for taking the time to review this.

I will take in consideration all that you told me, I will practice the Organic Shapes as warm up and I will also make a few more constructions, maybe try to paint themso I can be excited about that. I do not like insects so looking at them made me sick, this did not helped :)).

Thank you again!

iarinam

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