Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals
10:50 PM, Friday January 28th 2022
Struggled at first but got the hang of it near the end. crit appreciated.
Hello rac! Overall you've done a good attempt, though there are a few important things I want to talk about, let's go!:
On organic intersections you're doing a good job drawing the simple forms except in a few cases in which you do them a bit complex, and you're doing a pretty good job as well varying and drawing the contour lines on the forms.
The main issues I see are explained here give it a read and tell me if you don't understand something!
Now into your animal drawings! Overall they feel pretty solid but there are a few things missing:
On these drawings we want to always draw everything using only simple forms. So the workflow always goes like this:
Decide what simple form to use, drawing the simple form, and then connecting it back to the previous structure you had on your drawing by drawing the intersection. On your drawings sometimes you don't draw fully through your forms and sometimes you don't connect them as well, so I want you to always think about this process constantly when you're doing these exercises. Here's an example with your deer.
Lastly you are sometimes hiding your lines. All your lines should have exactly the same lineweight, unless you wanna clarify which forms are on top and which behind with overlaps, just like I explained on the organic forms exercise. And make sure you keep lineweight to only 1 more additional superimposed line on top as well, don't overdo it!
Overall like I said you have a good understanding of form as you're wrapping around forms to others pretty well, and in some instances you do a pretty good attempt on intersections as well. But i want to make sure you know how to commit and learning to see everything you draw as a 3d form that connects the previous parts of the drawing, so I want you to do 1 more page. Can be anything, just make sure it's something big with four legs so I can see how you approach intersections and using simple forms. Good luck and remember to ask any doubts you might have. Keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
1 more page of a hooved quadroped or something similar
Hello again! You're making progress but there are still a few things you haven't corrected:
1.You stil aren't drawing through your forms. Like I pointed out on the previous critique, you should draw all the forms completely even if the viewer shouldn't see them. So draw legs fully even if they're back legs and they're covered by the torso of the horse.
2.You are making intersections on places that aren't possible. When you are connecting two forms you must fuse them on a part where both forms exist. For example on the muzzle of the horse you connected one part of the muzzle to the air instead of the cranium of the horse.
This is the same with the way you connected the legs, drawing a ball on the middle of the legs doesn't actually connect them in 3d. The point of the intersections is to take 2 forms and fuse them as if you were building a new 3d form, so the drawn intersection must be part of the 2 forms.
3.Your simple forms still aren't completely simple. When drawing simple organic forms, they must be the same as on lesson 2, two identical balls connected by a tube of consistent width.. They can't be bent cylinders like the ones you used on the legs, or sausages that are bigger on one end than the other.
Before moving on I want to see one more page of another quadruped, make sure you keep in mind those 3 things!
Next Steps:
1 more page of a quadruped
Actively made an effort to draw simple sausages and draw through everything, and attaching the muzzle to the cranium to the best of my ability from the ref I used. Thanks for the crit btw
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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