2:30 PM, Thursday March 11th 2021
Hey Chaeryeong, I've checked your submission!
Starting out by your organic forms with contour lines, they look really good, though I'm seeing that you are making them have a little pinch in the section that you connect your line- Try to make it so your line tappers, with itself at the end, so you can create a more smooth connection. Also, try to vary a little more the degree of your contour curves, like this.
Moving on to your insect constructions, it looks like you did a good job on it. There are some issues that I will comment about, but overall, you are doing a god job making this insects look three dimensional.
I see a pretty common major issue that you are doing on a lot of your heads, which is starting out by constructing a ball for the head, and the ignoring and adding another bigger, and more complex, form that encapsulates it. You can see this in this examples of your work. The issue with this practice is that, by ignoring your original forms, you are undermining the construction as a whole- That's exactly why we work additively, starting out by well thought simple forms that will work as our base, and from that we level up the complexity by continuing adding simple forms that sit on top of the base you set up earlier.
The thing is, you actually did this correctly in a lot of your constructions, you did it for your steg's shell, and you also did it for your scorpion head! This means that it is not something you are not capable of, check this Uncomfy's ant head demo, it illustrates exactly the correct procedure.
Talking about additively building, there is a technique which you will use on your next lesson, but you can use it here to add extra bulk on your sausages (here and here. It looks like you are already doing it, like on your Steg legs, but remember that extra masses need to wrap around your original forms.
Now, we need to face the texture issue. You are focusing too much on making the drawings look pretty, which is not our focus here. We can divide this course in two major things we do, construction, and texture- Though, they both follow a very similar purpose. We do construction to show the viewer how it would feel to manipulate the object with their hands and how it would sit in front of them. For texture, is pretty much the same, here we try to show the viewer how it feels to run their hands on the surface of the object that we are constructing. So, next time you are gonna go sicko mode with that ink, remember what our focus is here.
Also, you are inking a lot, the issue with this, is that I cannot see your construction lines at all in most of your textured insects- As much as I would like to give you feedback on the beautiful scorpion you did, it's really tough. Remember that the situations that we use an ink brush, are very rare and just on cast shadows, so try to control yourself.
On the same note, I want to know, How much do you follow the 50% rule? (Be honest). Because, this is a technique that it looks like you really enjoy and you've really practice it! I highly recommend you give yourself some time outside DaB to keep on pushing this technique forward and apply to things that you really care and are passionate about , this will also make it so that next time you are on a lesson, you can control yourself with the detail, since you are already doing it on your free time!'
One final issue that I'm seeing is that whenever you are doing a new layer of construction, you are doing it more heavy/thicker that the previous one. The thing with this is that line weight is a tool with a very specific purpose- We use it on localized areas, where we need to clarify how certain parts of forms overlap with each other. Also, in future constructions where things just get more and more complex, you will end up with just a mess of line weight.
Always remember to finish the constructions with the same thickness, and when you are done, then you start clarifying how certain areas relate to each other, with subtle and localized line weight.
You did a great job on this lesson, so I'm gonna mark it as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move on to lesson 5!