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5:45 PM, Thursday April 15th 2021

This is looking much better! I can see you employing all the points I raised. I have just one minor suggestion for you to keep in mind - when drawing hooves/feet, the corners of the silhouettes of those forms are important. Right now you're drawing them with a lot of rounded, smooth curves. Corners in a silhouette help imply distinguished, separated faces/planes, which in turn helps make that form feel more three dimensional. Conversely, sticking with a smooth curve all the way through tends to make it feel more like a flat shape. When looking at your reference image, try to identify where you would separate the front from the side and the top, and draw your form's silhouette accordingly.

Anyway, good work all around. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 cylinder challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 6.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
9:06 AM, Thursday April 22nd 2021

Awesome! It took longer than I thought it would but completing this lesson was well worth it. Hooves are definitely giving me a bit of a harder time but your explanation is clearing it up. Thanks again :)

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