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Parker
Tamer of Beasts
Joined 4 years ago
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parker's Sketchbook
11:21 AM, Tuesday January 19th 2021
Here is my page of leaves.
So the trend I'm noticing in your critique is that I'm focusing mainly on the things you mention first/that are the most important and lose focus or don't pay attention at all to the stuff that comes after that. I really try to get all the information in my head but it would probably better to just pause after one or two drawings and go back to the instructions to see if I missed anything and pay more attention to that in the next drawing.
Since the branch exercise is only one page I guess I didn't fully grasp the concept/paced to faced through that exercise so that point got lost on me. I will definitely incorporate that in my warmup.
The mushrooms where overlaying each other and I wanted to show the direction of the cap but I still struggle with line weigh and putting it exactly on the existing line. Thats why I was so hesitant there and overdid it. I try to work on that in my warm-ups as well. The "to thin" drawn ellipse was in that case just my fineliner giving up because I destroy there nips. I bought better ones and try to pay more attention to the pressure I apply to the page. But developing that kind of muscle control just takes time.
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