Tidesphere

Thank you very much for your feedback, it is very clear and helpful. Your diagrams help very much. I appreciate your patience.

Hey! It took me a bit but I've got the new pages done. Let me know what you think.

https://imgur.com/a/F59FTzW

Hey Dio,

Thank you for all of your feedback, it's been incredibly helpful. I will also be more mindful of boundaries around when and where it's most appropriate to ask for feedback at a given stage. I'm very grateful that you've pointed out that frustration to me, and I definitely understand the need to put that workload on students rather than the TAs. I'll be back when my assignment is complete!

Hey Dio,

Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate how much time and energy you put into it, and it's been very helpful. One thing that I suppose I'm struggling with is how to determine where to place the additional forms on things.

Referencing the horse that you edited, and broke down the different things you've added (which was very well done, and I appreciate a lot). If we look at the forms you've added along the back, there's one in red, and then one in purple, and then red again. I do not understand how or why the decision was made to add in three different forms that have different shapes and transitions. When looking at the reference I don't see any of those three different shapes in the horse. Most of the torso is just one contiguous shape, and I don't see the pinches and valleys that there seem to be in your corrections.

Here is the reference I used: https://imgur.com/a/6mI0PuI

I can see where there's a hunch over the shoulders that I missed, but from what I'm able to perceive, the rest of the torso from the shoulders back to the hips is just one contiguous form. The difficulty I'm finding is making the sausage shape in a way that isn't just... the entire torso on its own, with no need for extra forms. But I know I'm not supposed to do that, so I make the sausage form smaller than the torso, and then... what forms do I put on it that isn't just "wrap material around the torso to make it the same shape but just bigger"?

Edit: Please set the boundary if I am mis-using the homework feedback discussion tools, but I worked on this tonight

https://imgur.com/a/eIvgwP9

I focused on using sausages more, and dropping forms onto it, is this closer to where we're wanting it? No need to go in depth, I don't want to monopolize anyone's time.

Hey! I appreciate the feedback. You make things really clear and easy to understand, and your diagrams are always so helpful. Showing me what my drawing should have looked like helps me conceptualize it a lot.

You're right that I used thicker lines to try and convey shadow, but it seems like it didn't get conveyed well enough, I'll need to re-evaluate how I'm expressing that. All of your critiques have been very on-point and I really appreciate them. I'll be working to improve as I move on to the next lesson!

https://imgur.com/a/9eItllL

Here we go! Sorry it took so long, life exploded at me a bit.

Hello! This was all very clear, and very helpful. I'm grateful for the guidance, and especially where you marked on my drawings where things could have been changed. The compliment to my segments made my whole week too.

Would you prefer detailed or non detailed insects? I'll get started right away!

Oh! How strange! Here, try this one.

https://imgur.com/a/yUAmw56

Thank you so much for all your help

Thank you for your help, it has definitely made things much clearer

Alright. I've got some more done but I think it's gonna take some more work. I'm just really confused at this point, and I feel like I'm getting mixed messages. I'm struggling to figure out what I'm being told I'm doing incorrectly. Aside from lacking confidence in my lines, because that's not really something I can help? When I have many ellipses and can move shorter distances, my line confidence is a lot better and there are less slip ups, which is what I was told I was doing wrong in the first critique. But in the second critique, the things I did to fix that are also bad, and I need to go back to doing it in the way that was causing the mistakes in the first place, but just... without doing the mistakes?? I feel very frustrated.

When it comes to the leaves, I'm being told that I'm both trying for too much complexity but also that I'm staying in my comfort zone too much, and I've got no idea how to interpret that or what to do to fix either of them. Do I leave my comfort zone and go with more complexity or do I do less complexity and more comfort?

With the shading issue, I get what you mean as far as cast shadow being the only shadow, but if that's the case, then a lot of things are going to look very confusing. I've added my references to this submission. https://imgur.com/a/n36egxt

Now, for leaf #1, if we use the texture rules the way I understand you're telling me; the leaf is the only thing that is casting shadow on itself in that reference, which means that nearly half of the drawn image should just be a big black shape. But that would not convey any texture information and would just be massively confusing, so I shouldn't do it right? But the same shadow in other places conveys that the 'veins' of the leaf are raised. So do I add those shadows, but ignore others, even though they're the same shadow from the same source? How do I separate them? How do I determine what to mark?

In leaf #2, there are zero cast shadows. So the entire leaf should just be the flow lines, and any shapes that I use to help me determine what the outline should look like, right? I did that, but it just looks like a huge mess, and the outline doesn't even look good. I feel confused and frustrated with myself.

In leaf #3, I tried to do only the cast shadows, and zero shadows or texture information conveyed by midtones or the color of the leaf itself. So it just kinda looks... weird? I don't know. I have no idea what I'm doing.