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2:22 AM, Thursday June 11th 2020
I just finished this lesson too! ours looks better than mine so take mine with a grain of salt. I really liked your insect drawings they looked awesome!
Your organic sausages with contour lines, the contour lines look maybe a little flat? like the line goes straight a bit much in the middle and I think the examples I saw from the lesson there was more of a constant curve. Looks very neat and confident and accurate though. Nicely done overall.
Maybe for the scorpion I'm not sure if the foreshortening is off or just like the proportions but the body looks a litte long.
Grasshopper edges look good! Looks a little flat overall? I'm not sure why though. Maybe the segments don't really wrap around? Same with the lightning bug/beetle after that. Not sure why though. Might be just because of the way it looks from the side/top?
I'm not sure what the next one is...a mosquito? The leg placement looks good but the shapes look a little off? I'm not sure how to elaborate. the solidity/roundness is confusing. The center line looks confusing. I think the far edge looks like it just ends, like no rounding on it.
The cicada or Aphid looking thing next looks awesome! Very round, very solid!
The wasp looking thing after the spider looks awesome, probably my favorite. Very convnincing forms! I think it's specifically the thorax and how you wrapped the segments around it to make it look rounded. Very nice.
Overall looks really good! I'm trying to remember all the things he said ha. I think the forms looked solid, it all fit together in a convincing way. Nicely done!
...I would move on to animals but honestly i wouldn't trust my advice too much ha. Good luck!
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4:58 AM, Thursday June 11th 2020
Thanks for looking into it. I think i made that scorpion turn to the viewer on the far end (not intentional) and it makes it look weird. I too don't really understand why some insects look flat and how to avoid it. And for the legs that just end, i think it had some toe-looking things on the end and i was just too lazy designing them.
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