Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

7:32 PM, Thursday July 15th 2021

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Another lesson down and I feel pretty alright about it, especially towards the end. Keeping my lines clean, applying line weight and texture properly and making proportions accurate are all areas I had difficulty with over the course of this and previous lessons. The first batches of animals here are particularly rough and messy (check out how wonky those wolves turned out) and I wasn't really adding the auxiliary forms with a proper understanding of how they wrap around the major ones. I think I started getting a better grasp on the concepts around the gazelle, and I'm particularly happy with how the extra masses and proportions came out on the kangaroo. Still having difficulty with constructing the faces, and keeping my sausages consistent for the legs, however. With additional practice on boxes and organic forms I hope I can get better at 'em.

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