5:44 PM, Monday December 28th 2020
At its core, this is definitely much better. There are a number of issues I will point out, but you are now moving more firmly in the right direction, and what comes next is largely a matter of practice. Ultimately that is what we're looking for here, for signs that the student understands the underlying concepts so that they will be able to continue to make strides in the right direction on their own. Even with correct understanding, after all, mileage is still required to keep seeing significant growth.
So, here are the main issues I noticed:
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You're drawing your ribcages very small. Remember that they constitute 1/2 the length of the torso.
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Your sausage forms pretty much always have this pinching through the midsection, taking on the shape of a sort of bean rather than a sausage. It's very slight, always because it gets pushed in more dramatically on one side, whereas the other remains nice and smooth. This is simply a matter of targeted practice in drawing those simple sausage forms. The ends are nice and circular, so you just need to get that midsection in order.
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Your eye sockets pretty consistently appear to be drawn with more curving, organic lines, rather than individual straight cuts as shown here. Your eye sockets appear to be drawn more as a single continuous stroke - with the last drawing's eye socket appearing to just be an ellipse. This simply suggests that more thought needs to come before every action you take.
You're definitely improving a great deal when it comes to adding additional masses, and while they don't all fit together quite as nicely as they could (lots of empty spaces and gaps) they are much better than they were before.
So, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete, leaving you to continue practicing these on your own as you move forwards through the course. I do want to mention one thing however - in the coming months, I have plans to significantly update the material in the lesson itself, with new video demonstrations and an overhaul of the concepts presented there. Most of these updates are things I've shared with you here in my critiques, because it is in critiquing students that I develop new ways of explaining things. It takes time for those changes to bubble up into the lesson and the videos, however. When they ultimately get there, my intent is for them to be more cohesive and structured. So, when I do release that new material, I strongly recommend you read/watch it. Along with your own practice between now and then, and having these concepts arranged in a more cohesive manner, it should help you continue to develop your use of construction in this context.
Next Steps:
Go ahead and move onto the 250 cylinder challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 6.