BoxFoxSox

Thank you so much for your critique and tutelage.

I've taken too long of a break from drawabox, but am determined to complete the course. Lesson 7 here I come.

All my best to you,

Me

Thanks again for all the excellent criticisms!! I really appreciate your tutelage.

Thank you very much for helping me understand this. The illustration that you shared made the concept click for me. Thanks again and all my best wishes to you.

Fantastic critique of a less-than-fantastic homework submission. Thank you very much for taking the time to detail all the problems of my work. The struggle is real on my end. But I am practicing, and am fully aware of how much I suck. Nevertheless, I continue to study and work and have real desire to improve.

One question about something you mentioned: "Cast shadows on the other hand can be as broad and heavy as we want, but they cannot cling to the silhouette of a given form. " I'm not sure I understand what you mean. In my thinking, for example with a sausage pile, the sausage above would cast shadow on the sausage below, and this shadow would conform to the below sausage shape. No?

Great advice/critique, sir! Thank you.

In my free time I'm continuing to work on adding forms to forms. Really cool to start to see the 3-D perspective better and better, bit by bit.

Thanks for the course. It is profoundly satisfying to me.

Link to the assigned work: https://imgur.com/a/3MEZdta

thanks again for your critique. and for this amazing course. for the first time in my life, i feel like im becoming noticably better at drawing.

I too am now completing Lesson 3, so take my advice for what it's worth.

I'm impressed with your work! Really excellent, overall.

The one thing that catches my eye is the degree of your ellipses as they travel through perspective. On your branches, I see that sometimes the ellipses don't inform how the branch is moving through space - as they sometimes appear all the same degree. Here is a link showing an example of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/lpxeUSP

See how the ellipses change their degree as they move through perspective.

The only other suggestion is to keep working on textures. Using a range of textures, sparingly, is quite useful to informing not only the surface of the object, but its light and shadow.

That's just my 2 cents. Overall, you are doing very well and I applaud your work.

Thank you so much for your detailed critique!! I admire your work and teaching style very much, so having your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Funny thing is I've been drawing leaves in my spare time (50% time) trying to understand how they work and problem solve. I did dozens of pages of leaves. But when it was time to submit the homework for review, I probably didn't grab a good enough one. (I've included a photo showing a dozen other leaf pages, just to show you my mania...lol)

Thanks for the branches feedback. I really needed to focus better on overshooting the ellipses - and I hope I did better this time.

My two plants are the Sea Grape and the King Oyster Mushroom (from your tutorial). In the sea grape, I struggled with the one leaf showing its underside, and probably made it too dark relative to the top-side leaves. Or maybe I should have added more texture to the topside? Any suggestion here is appreciated. (I also struggled with the ground cover, which was straw-like. This was my first time with this texture, and I'm not entirely unhappy with the result)

The King Oyster has many stray lines of ellipses - something I still struggle with. I've been doodling stacks of ellipses in correct perspective to improve.

https://imgur.com/a/sBId77q

Thank you Tofu! (I realized after submission that I should have drawn the ellipses completely. My bad)

I'll do more warm up exercises. I think my work would benefit from that, and not sure why I didn't think of that. Thank you again!

Hi Tofu,

Thank you very much for the critique. My lack of line drawing confidence stems from me ignoring it while trying to accomplish the particular lesson's focus. Thank you for steering me back to paying attention to the line itself.

I've done the extra assignments as instructed, available here: https://imgur.com/a/J7zbXoF , along with an extra organic intersection that didn't use xray vision just to see what it would look like.

I think I'm beginning to grasp the intersections, although curved surfaces (cylinders and cones) still mostly befuddle me.

Thanks again! :-)