7:39 PM, Thursday February 2nd 2023
Hello DatKexMonster, thank you for replying with your revisions.
With regards to your fear about working too fast, when faced with a difficult challenge, it is common for students to get flustered and just draw something to get it over with. This is a natural, and understandable reaction. I can see from your work that you're exercising control over this reaction, and thinking through each mark you make. Control is a bit like a muscle, if you exercise it, it will get stronger over time. As you continue to practice taking your time and being patient with your work it should become gradually easier to keep calm.
Looking through your work here, I'm honestly really pleased with the improvements you've made.
Observation
For example, you've observed all the joints in your bunny's front legs, even though the legs are straightened out in the reference, making them difficult to see. The placement of the legs on your cat is pretty accurate, it looks like you were either making use of the negative shapes to help you, or simply being much more careful. Either way your work looks more carefully observed this time. I did notice that you rotated the cat's head off to the side, instead of having it facing more towards the viewer as seen in the reference. I know it's tricky as there aren't many head demos from the front, but take another look at the drawing I did on your deer before, where I rotated the head to look more towards the viewer, I think that will help.
Legs
Much better. There are still a few leg forms that are more elliptical than sticking to the characteristics of simple sausage forms but on the whole they're better. Your feet are great.
Additional masses
I can see you've really taken the feedback you received on board, good work! I can see you overlapping your masses in 3D space, wrapping masses around the shoulder and thigh masses, using a separate mass for each bump you want to add so they don't become too complex, and thinking about the in between pieces that don't break the silhouette of your construction.
On your rabbit I noticed an area where you'd wrapped an additional mass around the top of a leg sausage, but there was an intersection between that leg sausage and the shoulder mass further down, which tells us that the top of that leg sausage is inside the shoulder mass. As the top of the lag sausage doesn't protrude outside the shoulder mass, it cannot be present on the surface as a structure t wrap that mass around. It's quite a wordy explanation, but I've highlighted the area on your work here to show what I mean. It is a similar issue to what I noted previously on the top buffalo where I explained that we can't wrap an additional mass around the rib cage because it is already engulfed by the torso sausage. So we have to think carefully about which forms protrude, and which ones are already inside something else, when we're designing our additional masses.
Head Construction
It looks like you've been paying attention to the shape of your eye sockets and wedging the boxy form of the muzzle right up against those eye sockets without leaving any gaps. Your heads feel quite solid, this cat is following the informal head demo pretty closely. Well done.
So, all in all, good work. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. Feel free to move on to the 250 cylinder challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 6.
Next Steps:
250 cylinder challenge