Hi Waxwerk, I'm gonna go over your submission.

Starting out by your organic intersections, they are looking pretty good, you are showing how they overlap with each other pretty clearly and also wrapping them around nicely. The only thing that caught my eye is that sometimes your cast shadows are not really following the form they are being cast on, don't be afraid to take some extra time to figure out how your cast shadows will look like in special tricky places!

Moving on to your constructions, they are looking really solid and a good grip on 3d. However, I wanna draw a attention to a couple of issues so you can keep on the right track; plus I feel obligated to touch on the ink topic, but we'll let that for the end.

First thing that I noticed about your submission is that in a lot of cases you are doing some simplified versions of some parts of the animals you are constructing. I see this specially on animals legs, where sometimes you are not even putting contour lines, like this bear front leg, while yes, it has contour lines, you are just taking into account the 2 silhouette and applying some extra planes here and there to show that is 3d. While this shows a good grip on 3d, it is not how we work on this lesson- I want you to take a look at this donkey demo by Uncomfy and focus just on the legs, see how it starts simple, with the use of sausages, but then the complexity and solidity ramps up with the addition of new 3d forms.

This is called, constructing additively and that is the way we construct in this lesson. We start with solid simple forms and then we start introducing new enclosed and solid forms to out structures and we then clarify the relationship between them by wrapping the silhouettes around each other (like the organic intersections and like this)

So, remember to observe more closely your reference and constantly go back to it, fight the urge to simplify and add complexity with new enclosed 3d forms, like you did in a lot of cases on the back of your animals, so it shouldn't be nothing new for you!

Another thing that you shouldn't be doing is going for clean up passes on different constructions stages, the reason behind this is very simple- Line weight is a localized tool which is used to clarify how certain forms relate to each other in 3d space, it is not meant to be used on large areas, since the more you use, the thicker it will need to be later to get it's effect. As you might notice, this ends up in a dangerous cycle where our constructions end up with really thick line weight, and the reason we don't want this is because as you move forward, constructions just get more messy, and the more line weight you are adding to the equation, the harder and messy everything will just become. What is recommended is to use the same line thickness through all the stages of the construction, and when you are done you apply line weight on certain areas that need clarification. Now, this also means that you shouldn't be doing light lines at the beginning of your constructions so it looks better afterwards, we are not here to make pretty pictures, we are here to make really messy 3d drawings so we can learn from them.

Now, your head constructions are looking mostly pretty good, you are fitting the muzzle and eyes socket all together like a 3d puzzle, which is great!

Now, I have to talk about ink. As you might already know there is an article on the topic of why ink, I supposed that you've already read it and if you haven't, do it. The main advantages of using ink is that your mistakes are there for you and me to see, and this makes it easier for me and you to get feedback- As much as I like your constructions that I think are digital, I don't now how many times you've gone through them, how many layers you did, if you ctrl z some line you messed up- I just don't know if you are erasing your mistakes. Now, I'm not saying you are purposely hiding stuff aways so your submission looks better, if you got with critiques up to this point I hope you got why getting critiqued is so important. The issue here is if you are just not doing things or cleaning up stuff that seem minor but could end up helping me caught an issue that you are doing and giving you feedback on it.

I kind of went on a tangent there, but the thing is that if you are doing Draw a Box up to this point, it means that you trust on how this course operates and teaches, if you didn't, you wouldn't be doing it. So, if maybe all this reasons that I've listed don't click for you to use 100% ink, at least just trust that this course knows something that you might not already know and will help you out on the future!

So, you did good on this lesson, and you also showed a really good grip on 3d space. However, if you want to keep on moving forward and be critiqued by this course, you will have to start following what this course says, is just common sense. So, I'm gonna ask for just one page of revision where I want you to focus on specific stuff.