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3:32 PM, Thursday April 30th 2020

Sorry for the late reply, I had to take a break from drawing for a bit but thanks for the great critque as always!

yeah about the sasuages i guess because i was watching your demos while drawing you didnt use the sasusage method for some of the bugs and i contemplated whether or not i should do it but youre definately right i should stick with drawing sausages as best i can.

and for shadows i just wasnt sure where to place it or how wide or big to make the shadow compared to the actual main forms, or what shape to make the shadow if that makes sense?

on the hercules beetle the horn is a bit curved but you drew the shadow's horn flat? (i might just have to study lighting/shadows more)

again thanks for the critque im planning to start lesson 5 soon so im pretty nervous but excited :)

10:18 PM, Thursday April 30th 2020

On the subject of the hercules beetle's horn and the shadow it would cast, remember that a shadow is essentially taking 3D information and projecting it down into two dimensions. This process inherently throws away certain pieces of information, depending on various factors. In this case, since the light source is higher up, and the curvature is primarily on the Y axis, then the curvature won't actually have much impact on the shadow itself. If the light source were more to the side of the beetle, then we'd catch more of that curvature.

1:42 AM, Wednesday May 6th 2020

ohh okay that makes it a lot more understandable thanks!

small question about the lesson 5, it says to draw:

2 pages of birds, 1 of which should be construction only (with no detail or texture)

4 pages of two non-hooved quadrupeds (wolves, cats, bears, ferrets, etc.) - meaning, pick two subjects and do two full pages for each.

im a little confused as to how many pages this actually means.

so if i choose to do a wolf, i would do 2 full drawings of a wolf? (i assume in different positions or something?)

2:31 PM, Wednesday May 6th 2020

Let's say you picked a wolf and a badger - you'd do two pages of wolf drawings and two pages of badger drawings, totaling to 4 pages. And yes, different angles/positions/poses/etc.

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