Sweet, thanks again Tofu. Thank you especially for taking the etxtra time to flip through my old submission and clarify anything I wasn't sure about. I look forward to seeing how I've progressed with my next submission!
https://imgur.com/gallery/WP2SIHw
So sorry, I think I accidentally edited my previous reply and replaced it with that short blip.
In response to what you mentioned about the course and the box challenge. I did all but a hundred or so of these boxes in the past couple weeks as that challenge was one that I was interspersing throughout my other lessons back when I left off. Because of that I hadn't finished it earlier. Also also, to clear things up a little bit on where I currently stand... I left of last year at the end of lesson two and these past few months I have gotten community feedback on that then did lesson three and got community feedback on that and then midway through lesson four I realized I wanted to get more in depth feedback. I also was impatient in waiting for two agrees (on feedback) that never came. Anyways, I finished the 250 box challenge (approx. 100-150 of the boxes) in the past few months alongside lesson three and a good deal of lesson four. So, that's where I stood if that clears anything up. I understand your logic though and will proceed with redoing lesson two when I get the go ahead.
Thank you again for the care you take in your feedback and for your encouragement.
Best,
Trizzle-Don't hesitate to assign me more boxes if you think it would be a good use of time.
Please do not take this in the wrong way as I mean this only to correct a misunderstanding of these great lessons but the darkness in the potatoe plant demo isn't a cast shadow. It is indeed there simply to clarify details and forms.
"Now, some will mistake this as being the use of shadow and light. It's not - or at least, it's not the point. What I'm doing here is using flat black spaces to help clarify my drawing and organize my shapes. If you look at the previous step it's very difficult for your eye to focus on any one area - everything is equal, so they're all vying for your attention. Stare too long, and it's going to start to hurt."
Oh snap haha nice to hear from you again, great memory! Thank you for re-reviewing this too! Sorry I hadn't redone these but I'll be on to adding to my box work now. Thanks again.
-Best wishes to you my friend!
Hello! First off, congrats on taking your first steps here. I can say first handed that this program is a fantastic help and I'm quite sure you'll find you've spend your time well here. Anyways, on with it then!
Firstly, I wanna say that your lines are very consistently confident and that is a huge part of this first lesson. It's definitely one of the most important things to develop during this lesson. Below I will quickly highlight the pros and con of your individual homeworks.
Superimposed lines, ghosted lines and ghosted planes- You've done well to create consistently confident strokes but remember that your lines shouldn't feather at the beginning, only at the end. Make sure you are placing your pen on the dot ever time before you start a stroke. This is recurring theme throughout these homeworks and is not a big problem as you've only recently begun! Make sure to keep this in mind as you move forward though.
Tables of ellipses, ellipses in planes and funnels- Good work on drawing through your ellipses two to three times. Though you've certainly done these as directed, I would suggest you try to vary the degree of your ellipses a little more in the funnels exercise.
Plotted, rough and organic perspectives + rotated boxes- Very nicely done! Your boxes are solid and you seem to be doing well in getting close to the imagined vanishing point. There are a few boxes with extra attempts at lines. To minimize these errors make sure you are taking your times with ghosting everything before putting your pen to the page. Very nice work on the rotated boxes by the way, those look great and that's not an easy one either!
Next Steps:
You're good to move on to Lesson 2 now! Have fun and keep that line confidence you've been adhering so well to!
Thank you so much for such an in depth and insightful review. I really appreciate you highlighting where I slacked a little on my less enthusiastic days. I will go back and revisit a page of solid and an additional page of leafy plants soon.
I only have a few small arguments. The potatoe plant drawings were done with black to help the form stand out as is shown in the demo. So in this case, it was not shadow but the darkening of negative space. I did this only because it was done in the demo and seemed reasonable to help the form pop a little so that I could analyze it a little better or at least in a different way than picking such a cluster out of a white background. My other argument is that the cactus you spoke of with the flatter contour lines do indeed have flat masses. I believe it is a prickly pear and while they are slightly rounded, they do have an overall ping pong paddle shape to their growth. I do think that varying the angles of these might've helped convey this better though as it seems I didn't convey it quite well enough. I also really wanted to attempt to extrapolate to tree construction on my own but I do now understand that this is rather tangential to the homework.
Thanks again, I'll be back with more drawings.
Woah, thank you so much! This is by far the most in depth review I've gottten yet and absolutely highlights my slip ups in discipline as well as technical weaknesses. Thanks a ton for this, I'll be sure to stay mindful of my shortcomings on this lesson as I move on and I'll make sure to return to practice as well! Thanks again and happy drawing to you my friend!
Very nicely done! These look fantastic and seem to be all done well within the set guidelines. You're sense of form and shadow on the floppy forms homework is very very solid and absolutely conveys a realistic space. The 3 texture study is the only homework I could find any issues with, the first and third feel as though they were less drawn from direct observation and more drawn from memory. Possibly try looking back and forth between your drawing and your reference even more to capture the organic irregularities of the shadows. I do think you did quite well on the tree bark texture though. The texture dissection is alo very well done and they all seem to contour well to the forms too. Fantastic work all around.
Next Steps:
Have fun moving on to CONSTRUCTION!!! dun duN DUN DUN!!!!! :P
Oh also! Eventually doing the 25 texture challenge would likely be very beneficial though I wouldn't wait until that's done to move on to the other lessons. I think interspersing it or simply being extra mindful would suffice more than well enough.
Thank you my friend. I appreciate the feedback on the arrows lesson as I totally missed that in reviewing my own homeworks.
Best to you too!
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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