The contour curve at the joints is the intersection between the two sausage forms.
If you think back to the form intersections exercise from lesson 2, we're doing the same thing, but instead of connecting boxes and cones and cylinders, we're drawing the intersection where two organic sausage forms connect.
I'm trying to do the construction of this image of a horse and its legs are telling me straight cylinders, but I know I'm suppose to use sausages to draw the legs. I the case of leg being super straight (as it is in this image) is it okay to use cylinders or should I use only sausage forms?
The constructional drawing exercises we do in this course are less about being hyper-accurate to our references, but more about going through the steps, employing the specific techniques introduced here, in order to put our brains through the paces of solving a 3D spatial problem.
Given that, it is best to use the sausage method even when the legs appear super straight. It will also help attune your observation to identify subtler curves and flows in the legs of your animals, helping to keep them feeling overly stiff and robotic.
hey I'm having difficulty trying to transition shadows from form to form. Any time I do it, it always looks incorrect. Here's an example of what I mean:
any general rules or ways to think about this that can help with transitioning the shadow from different forms?
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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