Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

3:44 PM, Tuesday September 21st 2021

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5:05 PM, Tuesday September 21st 2021

Hi! I just finished this same lesson so I don't have much knowledge to give you a critique, your work is very detailed and your constructions seem 100% solid to me, I'd say you're ready to move on. Nitpicking for the feedback, I'd say some of your thicker lines, even though they seem to be stylistic choices, are kinda flattening your drawings a little bit, specially when you use extra thick lines in the whole extension of the part of the drawing that is close to the floor. This is very visible in your organic intersections, the shadows of the base wouldn't be straight in the front like you did, the same happens to your Pallas Cat of the top right corner on page 1 and to the bigger one in page 2, as well as the frog and the lizard.

And nitpicking again, a lot of the legs you did look a bit stiff, I think the major cause for this is caused by their proportions, the segments have sizes pretty close to each other, both in height and width. Overall amazing working, good luck on your journey :)

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11:29 PM, Tuesday September 21st 2021

Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to share a crit! I hadn't really thought about how the shadows at the base of the organic forms exercise should be rounded, but what you say makes total sense and I can see how my forms got a bit distorted as a result of the flatter shadows. I did struggle with the legs too - I think I'm just having trouble using the "sausage method" to create legs rather than building from the underlying bone structure - it started to make better sense once I got to the giraffes, but by then I was about 75% of the way through, lol

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