Thanks for the critique!
I will start to focus on the shapes inside the silhouettes in future constructions.
The tuft reference in the gnu was super useful btw, i was focusing way to much in the shadows projected by the tip of the tuff when the intersections should be the areas where shadows are more pronounced. I didn't notice in the texture but is was more clear in the edited picture. Tyvm!
Thank you very much!
Hello! Thanks for the critique. I think I understood most of the issues pointed out during this critique and I will work to fix them in future lessons.
Before moving on, however, I would like to ask a few questions regarding the leaves and branches exercises, since I feel I'm struggling there, specially when it comes to leaves.
Branches
Onto your branches [...] while it's possible to see that you're extending some of your edge segments you're not always doing so
Sometimes I will blunder my trace lines between two ellipses, and the end of my trace does not end touching the end ellipse, like here. When this happens, should I continue from the ellipse or from the closest point to the ellipse of the failed trace?
Related to this, after messing the first trace, sometimes trying to extend that same trace would be damaging for the construction, like in this situation. Should I stuck to the failed trace and redirect it to the next point instead of starting at the ellipse instead?
Leaves
You're not always considering how the center line is more than just a 2D mark and that it establishes how a flat object moves across 3D space freely. Because of this some of your leaf structures that bend in some way or another often fold unaturally
I've been struggling with this issue in most of the lesson.
While I can visualize the webiste example you send me without any issue, I'm unable to translate it to the three examples of wrong folds you pointed me out, as my brain doesn't seem to have any issue with them. I just feel they're in their proper plane, so I'm unable to visualize how they're supposed to fold based on the central line I draw, or much less how the lines are supposed to intersect to generate the required fold.
I feel I can draw folding leaves easily when the central line has a prominent curve, but when it comes to the mentioned ones I'm at a total lost. Could I get an example of leaves folding with a similar center line? I think that would help me understand the issue better.
That is all.
Thank you very much!
Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.
As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.
Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).
Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.
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