SomeHuman

Thank you for your advice. One of the fundamental things I keep coming back to is I simply need to be on and make sure every action I perform on the page actually has meaning and intention, but man does the brain just want the ease of running on auto pilot.

Okay, I can do that.

Just to clarify and verify that I get it, when you say as start simple as possible when constructing it's almost as if you want to first define an initial convex bounding shape of what the object is you're attempting to draw and then recursively create more shapes that bound the complex regions and eventually adding more detail and textures based on top of those shapes. Which is basically what you state on the complex leaf structure note just with the additional steps/information based on it being about a leaf.

On the topic of starting simply as possible what would be a good heuristic to use when deciding what the initial bound shape should be? I guess I am asking when does a shape need to be become two shapes or more and what should it look like? Like in the leaf/branch I drew in the top left if I had a another branch coming off the same initial starting point with similar branching leaves would the initial shape be something constrains both branches or would each branch get their own? Is the heuristic simply pain and experience?

Also, I'll try to be more conscious of zig-zagging as I think what have been doing is not really thinking about building on top or cutting from the form I've placed and instead just thinking of it as a "guide" causing any sense of 3D/volume to fall flat simply because the lines stop have a sense of form and just become 2D lines.

I realize I am almost parroting what you've already said in many different forms of media as well as maybe asking questions that you've already answered and for that I apologize and I also want to apologize for potentially being one of those students that takes up more of your reviewing time than most.

I had forgotten about the warm-up bit about only including exercises into your pool only after you've completed the lesson.

https://imgur.com/a/pu8pomE

Also, more branches? I feel like I did better on the leaves, but I feel iffy about that page of branches.

Cool, thank you for your review. I have tried different variations with leaves with edge detail and more complexity I just never know if I should submit the first time I did the exercise or the most recent. I also definitely got cheeky with the branches and tried to do them with one stroke. I'll try to constrain my lines more to their forms and be more deliberate for the next exercises and revisions.

Sweet! Thank you for your feedback

Thanks for the critique, man. That parallel line issue is something I currently struggle with when it comes to drawing relatively shallow foreshortened boxes. I think I'll just try to focus on slamming that image of the relative angles into my brain.

See you in lesson 2!

Thanks! I really need to learn to live with my mistakes philosophically and artistically :D. Also, yeaaaa I made the inner box of the center box with the rotated boxes too small and just decided to stick with it.

Now onto having nightmares of boxes.