2:25 PM, Friday October 28th 2022
The first thing that stood out at me here is that for the first two pages, where you were meant to follow along with the shrimp and lobster demo, it's fairly clear that you did not actually follow the demo's own steps. I'm actually unclear on what it is you did - whether you picked a lobster and a shrimp reference of your own and drew along with that, but that's not what was asked. What I asked you to do was to follow along with the demonstrations I linked you to, as closely as you could.
Your other constructions are coming along decently, with a few important points to call out:
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You are still neglecting to define the joints between your sausage forms with a contour line, as noted in the middle of this diagram.
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You are indeed generally making better use of additional masses - though you'll want to be more mindful of how you actually design their shapes, where you place sharp corners, softer corners, outward curves, and inward curves. Right now you appear to be relying entirely on making everything out of outward curves, with no sharp corners or inward curves at all - this results in forms that appear very blobby, and read more as flat stickers being pasted on top of the drawing. The complexity - the sharp corners and inward curves - are necessary to achieve the impression that the forms wrap around the existing structure. It seems here that because my previous feedback stressed the need to be mindful of where you use that complexity, that you ended up avoiding it altogether, which unfortunately is not correct either.
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Also wanted to note that for the praying mantis' mandibles, you did end up extending out the head mass's silhouette, rather than building a completely self-enclosed mass for it, as we see here. You can refer to the ant head demo I shared in my initial critique, as it follows a very similar structure.
Now, while your own insect constructions are coming along decently, I am concerned with how you approached following along with the demos. I would like you to do the shrimp/lobster again, to demonstrate that you are able to follow along with a demonstration exactly as it is, taking the time you need to follow it to the letter, as closely as you can.
Next Steps:
Please complete the shrimp and lobster demo drawings once again.