Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids
9:54 PM, Monday February 21st 2022
This one was tricky. I had a lot of trouble controlling the thickness of my sausage forms, especially the skinny long ones, since that meant trying to match both sides as closely as possible. I usually erred on the side of making them too thick, since I was paranoid about breaking the illusion of solidity by having the lines cross.
After the feedback I got for my plants, I made sure not to rush on the areas where there's more detail than usual, such as segmented antennas or legs. I still had difficulty getting lines to go where I want cleanly, but I think things came out a bit neater than with the plants.
For the moth (#9), I wasn't sure how to do the antenna. In the reference photo, it has hairs coming off it that are thick enough to clearly distinguish individually, so I tried to draw them individually, but I think that added too much noise, so it might've been better to treat them as some kind of texture.