Jacht

This is the make-up work I was asked to do. https://imgur.com/a/PTHhv3K

Writing notes about what I did each day on the page would have taken up too much space so I instead recorded my progress in a .txt file. These are the contents.

6/04/23 - 30 to 45 minutes, set up vanishing points

6/06/23 - an hour, establishing bounding box and determining wheel placement

6/12/23 - 30 to 45 minutes, set up wheels and established bumper positioning

6/14/23 - 30 minutes. Using pen just complicates all of this to a needless degree

6/18/23 - 50 minutes, need to start over on Tuesday. Just confusing myself with all of this detail and bullshit

6/21/23 - 45 minutes, reestablished bounding box

6/24/23 - 60 minutes, started blocking it out

6/27/23 - 45 minutes. Don't feel like I'm gaining anything from this. Whatever, drew chassis

6/29/23 - 30 minutes, front bumper, wheel wells

7/02/23 - 30 minutes, finalized wheel wells and car interior. Need to wrap up on 7/4

7/03/23 - 30 minutes, done

I'm not going to mince words. I hated every minute of this exercise and it was a struggle to find the motivation to work on any of these. Aside from the non-vehicle drawings, each of these took over a week to complete. The only things I got any semblance of enjoyment out of drawing were the space shuttle and White Base, and I only liked doing the latter until the marks became so dense that I couldn't see what I was doing. I couldn't find any adequate front views of the thing so I had to work with what was available. I've also seen that, in another student's lesson, you permitted him to draw a fictional vehicle, which is Slave One. https://imgur.com/a/CMECsr8

To address other things you mentioned, I was using a ballpoint pen but the things would crap out on me during my attempts to draw, meaning I had to redraw certain lines. I also did orthographic studies of the AE86 and Tacoma; I simply didn't include them in my submission because I think I saw a total of one student include it in his.

Let's be real. Look at these. https://imgur.com/a/ZFj0m50

I was referencing these.

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/159455643042408433/?mt=login

https://www.futurity.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/water-droplets-bounce-physics-2_1600.jpg

I can't even handle what seems to be basic textures. There's nothing positive to say about either of these. They're awful attempts and I'm seriously questioning why I'm bothering if I can't even get it right on a warmup attempt.

It's fine, you more or less addressed what I was trying to get at. There's one other thing I wanted to talk about. I'm beginning to lose any semblance of confidence I had in my abilities and try as I might, I don't feel like I'm ever doing textures correctly. I try focusing on the dark areas when doing a texture exercise but it always comes out wrong. Even if I do something simplistic like stones, it always just looks wrong and I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. What's more is that I don't even feel like I'm doing your "boxes on a string" exercise right because those look terrible as well. I'm questioning why I'm even trying anymore.

I wanted to ask something else about one of the techniques shown in lesson 7, specifically what's shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERQ-_Xfz3yk

I understand that stacking planes in three-point perspective is self-explanatory but is there a way to replicate the trick shown at this point: https://youtu.be/ERQ-_Xfz3yk?t=1138

I was testing this during my warmup and couldn't do it correctly. I was under the impression that I could draw a line from one corner through the midpoint of the opposite side to get an identical plane representing another face of my box. I can provide an image of what I'm talking about if it what I'm saying doesn't make sense.

Alright, with all this in mind, I wanted to get approval on the subjects I've chosen to draw for lesson 7. I don't think any of these go against the requirements.

https://preview.redd.it/udm21kf3exr21.jpg?auto=webp&s=bd0c3e0a1a93ba519812fdabae6f4492008a8c5b

https://free4kwallpapers.com/uploads/originals/2019/09/30/panda-trueno-wallpaper.jpg

https://nationalinterest.org/sites/default/files/main_images/kv.jpg

https://www.mainstand.co.th/photos/5/CAR/SubaruImpreza/Bunta_Impreza_Final_Stage.jpg

https://www.gundam.my/detailimage/interactive/3959/2.jpg

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wrQMw49qwH6ZngBVzqZ8oZ.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-412k0MMEoms/TwIiXKKWA0I/AAAAAAAALjA/aWjKlqa-NEc/s1600/wb_013.jpg

https://img2.cgtrader.com/items/1935417/1aa30bb67d/toyota-tacoma-trd-2020-3d-model-max.jpg

The following link contains the makeup work. https://imgur.com/a/fxoYuuI

I'm obviously going to work on these but there's advice in here that contradicts what I've been taught. In lesson 4, you stress the importance of the silhouette. That's fine, but then you claim that, in my drawing of the mantis, I extended an existing form's silhouette. Is that not what's happening with the ant head you showed here? https://imgur.com/X4tx6KB

Sure, you can see that it's composed of numerous smaller shapes but that's exactly what I did with the mantis' head. The reference image I used showed it as having a triangular-shaped head, so I added onto a sphere in order to give that impression.

The other thing that bothers me is the leg construction. You can insist upon the sausage method all you want but there are some legs that just don't LOOK right when I build them this way. They're cylindrical or built in some other way, and the sausage method doesn't work for them. I did this with the black widow's feet because they're misshapen cones, the mantis' legs resembled cylinders, and the "beetle" (or whatever it was) had sections of its legs that resemble elongated bells. I'm being told to draw what I see but then I'm told it's incorrect.

Alright, I'll proceed later today. There is one last thing I needed to ask about. I've read over the instructions for the 25 textures thing and it's something I intend to get started on in the near future (I created and scanned a template to avoid having to set up the paper every time) but I don't know if this challenge is a prerequisite for any of the other lessons. I know the cylinders thing is required for one of them (lesson 5?) and I already did the box challenge.

The make-up submissions are here: https://imgur.com/a/fSoLDHi

Here's my issue with textures. I'm often put into situations where what I see is just a line. There's nothing more to it. It's just a line that's part of the texture. There's nothing for me to imply, there's nothing to shade in, it's just a line on the texture. I have no other way of representing this than by drawing a line. What's more is that, in the instructions for the dissections exercise, a lot of the examples are drawn in a pretty standard way, where it's not shading that implies the presence of something. This is especially prevalent in the hair, grass, and pangolin scale textures you provided. I'm working with a fineliner so I have limited means of conveying line weight, and since I can't perfectly trace over curves, my lines wind up looking like I tried correcting them. This creates an extremely frustrating scenario for me where I'm implementing what the lessons teach but then I'm told that I'm not doing that. Take this texture. https://polarbearsinternational.org/media/3353/2_simon-gee-0430.jpg?width=0&height=0

How in the hell am I supposed to convey this with shading alone? I HAVE to draw some of the shapes of the tufts of fur because I can't do it any other way. Unrelated, I find it difficult to care about drawing plants because I don't find them interesting. I'm following this course so that I can eventually do anatomy. I want to draw figures, not still life.