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10:47 PM, Wednesday April 22nd 2020

None of these are actually 3/4 views. By 3/4 view I mean where they're halfway between seen from the side and seen from the front. All of these have been fully side views (although the honey bee is starting to get into 3/4 territory, but still mostly side).

It seems to be more difficult than I expected to find a wasp that isn't featured in a side view, which is unfortunate. I did find this, which is getting into 3/4 territory, and is good enough for our purposes.

All that said, I think your first drawing, the one of the wasp, is actually very well done. The thorax is a bit big, proportionally speaking, but the segmentation on the abdomen is well done, the head construction's coming along well, and you've done a pretty good job of constructing the legs.

Your honey bee's also looking pretty good (although again the proportions throw things off a little), and the horse-fly's legs are a bit off but still generally pretty good.

All things considered, these are good enough, so I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto lesson 5.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
8:33 AM, Thursday April 23rd 2020

The image of the European white wasp you linked is actually the reference image for my drawing, which tells me I'm not quite there when it comes to conveying the perspective of my reference. I'll move onto the next section, as you say (it deals with the same problems, right?), but I'll keep this in mind.

Thank you again for taking the time to correct additional attempts! I wouldn't have been able to see these mistakes myself.

11:22 PM, Thursday April 23rd 2020

Ah yeah, your drawing of the wasp has the abdomen in a different position, and has the head tilting away from us. Try drawing a center line along the "spine" of your insect in the future, this'll help you pay attention more to how it's oriented in space.

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