4:12 PM, Saturday February 4th 2023
Hello 4kthom, no problem, thank you for replying with your revisions.
Starting with your organic intersections these are much better! You're keeping your forms simple and they're generally wrapping around each other with a sense of gravity. I'm happy to see you drawing through your forms, as this helps to reinforce your understanding of 3D space. You're doing a good job of pushing your shadows far enough to cast onto the form below and their direction is more consistent, well done.
Moving on to your animal constructions you've done a great job of applying the feedback I gave in your critique. You've done so well that I don't have that much to say here, I just have three small pieces of advice.
First, you're still a little tentative with overlapping some of your additional masses with the underlying structures to really wrap them around and give them a good grip. You're doing a good job with a lot of your masses, but I noticed the silhouette of the mass under the belly of this horse was running parallel to the torso sausage so I've redrawn it for you.
Second, on the same horse, there was an additional mass on the neck that you'd wrapped around the far side of the base of the neck. I figured this was just a one off thing, but I thought I should point it out while I'm here. It can get a bit confusing because we have to draw through our forms, but always carefully consider the structures that are present and be sure to use the near (visible) parts of your forms to introduce complexity to your additional masses.
I noticed sometimes you're adding sharp corners to masses where the underlying structures are smooth and rounded, so there's nothing present to cause such a sharp change in direction. An example would be this lizard, and this diagram shows how to wrap an additional mass around a rounded form without the need for arbitrary corners.
So, good work, I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. Feel free to move on to the 250 cylinder challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 6.
Next Steps:
250 cylinder challenge