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12:53 AM, Tuesday October 20th 2020

Your first two drawings came along reasonably well, but the third was very weak. I put a number of notes directly onto the page here.

Now, two out of three coming along reasonably well is generally good enough, but I also noticed that you don't appear to have paid much attention to the instructions I gave in my previous critique regarding how you construct your insects' legs. This is an extremely important technique that I want you to be able to use, as it will come up again in the next lesson.

I'd like you to do just one more insect drawing, demonstrating an understanding of everything I've pointed out, including the use of the sausage method. To start, I want to recommend that you not start defining each leg with a center line - while there's nothing inherently wrong with doing so, it is not included in the technique I'm asking you to follow, and so starting with that step sets you on a different path from the beginning.

Next Steps:

One more insect drawing.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:57 AM, Tuesday October 20th 2020

what should i do when the legs are really long and skinny? I find it rather difficult to make consistently thin and long sausages without losing control. for some legs that are really thin, i used the tube method we used for plant stems.

2:00 PM, Tuesday October 20th 2020

Always remember that a technique being difficult in a particular situation is not enough of a reason not to use that technique. It just means your results won't come out as well as you'd like, but with practice, that will improve. It's similar to how early on drawing from your shoulder wouldn't have been easy, but it was still the right call.

One thing that can help, in terms of approach, is to slow down your pace a little, while continuing to maintain a confident stroke. This can be tricky, but assuming you've practiced the ghosting method a great deal in the last several months, the speed one must maintain in order to keep a confident stroke does gradually decrease - meaning slowing down in order to retain a little more control (while still drawing confidently) becomes more of an option. Of course, we still need to focus heavily on drawing from the shoulder here.

11:37 PM, Monday October 26th 2020
edited at 11:48 PM, Oct 26th 2020

Now

I know you said ONE drawing.

But I was so unsatisfied with my first attempt I decided to redo it at a much slower pace. I spread out my second attempt over three days, for the head thorax and abdomen, on top of using multiple references instead of one.

Redo https://imgur.com/a/miULNfI

References https://imgur.com/a/8eF3o7s

I still feel like I made a few mistakes that could have been avoided, most obvious being the left antenna sausage being too thick, but I feel the diference was worth the extra time.

I did my best to try and adhere to all your previous comments, but If I did not follow anything, please let me know. Most of my effort went into getting the forms down as well as working on the sausage legs. Maybe I could have made it larger but I did the best I could.

Also, I didnt even bother finishing the first attempt. So thats why it is so lacking on top of all the other problems it has.

edited at 11:48 PM, Oct 26th 2020
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