Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids
12:28 AM, Sunday February 25th 2024
Huntsman Spiders are horrifying
Hello! Sorry for the wait! I've been sick and behind on everything (???)
Like I said on the video I want you to do one more page of organic forms and one more insect, remember to draw it big and try to get a picture that's a 3/4 view! (Not side, front or top views)
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one more page of organic forms
one more insect
For the contour lines, I think I was trying to figure out a way of how they would look towards the middle, but I don't know how I let myself make them look like that lol. Anyways here are the revisions, hopefully I did better. I hope you review all of my work I have left to do. Your videos are really helpful. Here is the link - https://imgur.com/a/zCSypXj
Yeah these are looking better! There are still some issues on the ellipses on what I pointed out but they are way better overall, great jobs!
On the bugs you're doing better but still a few issues, take a look at this diagram!
https://i.imgur.com/Ieh2tYF.png
Main thingies are the forms of sausages that sometimes are a bit ellipse like, and the adittional forms. That being said I think you're ready for lesson 5, good luck and if you have any questions please ask!
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Lesson 5
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