These look really good. Proportions are in need of a little work, but the construction itself gives a strong sense of form, and does make it feel 3 dimensional. Proportions are one of the hardest part of this subject, and not the major focus, so something to keep working on on the side. The line quality is exceptionally smooth, and confident. You clearly understand construction by now, and have the marksmanship skills to pull off what you want to.
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Move onto next lesson, and keep up the good work.
In the organic intersections it does not look like you considerd where the shadows would fall. Rather some lines are made thick black. You should be considering where those shadows fall , look a the lesson again. https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/9/shadows
think you could have benefited from less texture in a good number of the drawings.
Look over the organic intersections again, how you apply shadows and when line weight should be applied. The video lesson is good to view again here.
It does look like you got the 3D effect on there however but I will ask for revision.
1 page organic intersections(take a look at the lesson again)
1 page of any one animal construction (draw through ellipses at least once, ghost all your lines and dont add any texture, try working line by line and only add lineweight when needed)
Good luck :)
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1 page organic intersections
1 animal construction
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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