Elodin

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The Indomitable (Summer 2022)

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    3:19 PM, Monday October 28th 2024

    Here is the critique! Make sure to tell me if anything isn't clear on the video or if you have any more questions

    Overall like I said good progress and good luck on the cylinder challenge!

    Next Steps:

    250 cylinder challenge

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    8:32 PM, Tuesday October 15th 2024

    Hello! Looking oranic forms and bugs better but still missing some things! Here are some examples:

    Mainly you're forgetting drawing intersections between forms, you're not drawing the forms fully (for example some legs are thicker or have different forms and you aren't adding adittional forms for them) and lastly you aren't drawing through all forms .

    So i want you to do one more bug to see if you got it!

    Once again if anything isn't clear on the picture or if you have questions please ask! Good luck and great job so far!

    Next Steps:

    1 more bug in 3/4 view

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    8:26 PM, Tuesday October 15th 2024

    Don't worry about waiting, take always your time!

    Here's the crit, main things is that you are having problems making adittional forms interacting with each other,m keep in mind they need to follow each others lines, and that you forgot to draw intersections between forms, take a look at the examples here

    Also try not to use photos without legs! It hides the perspective so its harder to think about forms

    Give me two more animal drawings just so you get some practice with the intersections and you can practice a bit more with the aditional forms, tell me if you don't understand anything!

    Next Steps:

    2 more animal drawings

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    7:23 PM, Saturday October 12th 2024

    In general you're doing better , here are some corrections .

    1.Remember to place center lines as it decides the perspective (and don't forget to draw aditional parts like the shell you missed).

    2.Organic forms should be like defined in lesson 2, some of yours are a bit more like stretched ellipses instead.

    3.Sometimes you're going too fast, pay attention on each line you do, if you need to take a break take it, but do your best on each drawing!

    Good job overall so I'll pass you, good luck on lesson 5!

    Next Steps:

    Lesson 5

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    10:27 PM, Friday October 4th 2024

    These are much better! Some of them are still a bit off balance so keep trying to be careful but in general they are much better balanced, great job! You can move on to the next part of the exercises, so do 2 more animal drawings. Make sure to post the reference pictures as well! Good luck and great job!

    Next Steps:

    2 more animal drawings, post the references

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    10:25 PM, Friday October 4th 2024

    In general you shouldn't use a different pen on the exercises, the only exception is textures, so you can use them to fill shadow shapes, but not for lineweight, like I said with lineweight just overlap lines with the same pen.

    About your drawing you're doing great now not using the additional lienweight! But there are some issues that appeared that you didn't have before.

    1.Many intersections between forms are missing, like I mentioned make sure every single form is connected by an intersection.

    2.There are many forms missing, if you look at the forms at the reference and the forms at your drawing you can see you only drew a few forms and skipped on some of them, I point out a few of them on the drawing I did.

    3.A few forms you forgot to draw through, so be careful with that!

    Here's a drawing with my examples:

    That said I'm going to ask for one more drawing to make sure you understood these points. Good luck and remember to look at the image this time!

    Next Steps:

    1 more insect in a 3/4 view.

    1 photo with no lineweight added (all lines the same size) and no texture.

    1 photo after with lineweight added (simple extra lineweight with only one ghosted line and the same pen)

    and 1 photo after with texture and detail added.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    5:21 PM, Monday September 30th 2024

    Hello! Here's the critique If you have any questions please ask them, and good luck on lesson 4!

    Next Steps:

    Lesson 4

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    7:02 PM, Sunday September 29th 2024

    Hello! Here's the critique

    Like I said tell me if you have any questions or anything! I want you to do like I said on the video 1 more page of orrganic forms with contour lines and one more bug in a 3/4 view, remember to draw center lines, draw through the forms, draw intersections and focus ond rawing simple forms! Good luck!

    Next Steps:

    1 more bug in a 3/4 view

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    6:07 PM, Sunday September 29th 2024

    Hello! You're doing better but you still have some of the problems i mentioned. The lineweight is still super thick, are you using another marker that's bigger for drawing it or something? Like I said only draw extra lineweight with a simple line.

    The other thing is simple organic forms, you're still drawing them a bit too complex, like I said on the video if you wanna make more complex organic forms you need to do them in several steps, the simple organic forms you can draw are these .

    I drew on your picture here withe examples!

    To make things easier I want you to make 1 more drawing, take a photo with the drawing finished with 0 lineweight added, then another photo with the drawing after adding lineweight and then one after adding texture. So 3 photos in total. Make sure you don't draw any texture or shadows on the first 2 ones.

    Good luck and remember to ask questions if you have them, great job so far!

    Next Steps:

    1 more insect in a 3/4 view.

    1 photo with no lineweight added (all lines the same size) and no texture.

    1 photo after with lineweight added (simple extra lineweight with only one ghosted line and the same pen)

    and 1 photo after with texture and detail added.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    2:02 PM, Sunday September 29th 2024

    I made a mistake and uploaded the wrong video, if you have looked at it already don't freak out, I edited it again, sorry for the inconvenience

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