8:22 PM, Thursday April 8th 2021
Thank you again for your time!
Thank you again for your time!
I tried to split these one up over multiple days and do a lot of 50% time inbetween... I think I was starting to understand the foreshortening just a bit better towards the end of these.
I think I caught more of that feeling of rotating in space, though sometimes the ellipses got away from the minor axis...
I think I managed some more progress with these...
Thank you again for all your help!
I did my best to follow your advice, once in a while a sausage got away from my after trying to ghost but for the most part I think I managed to keep them the right size and in line...
As for attaching forms to the base I tried to think about what might happen if I pressed a form made of soft clay onto the form that was already there and hardened... it feels like it worked out a lot better than my previous attempts.
Finally this entire lesson was done start to finish using a Sakura Pigma Micron 08 which has a tendancy to lighten a bit when drawing past a certain speed or at an angle... I noticed that when drawing circles or ellipses it has a tendency to smudge because of how fast my hand is moving so I had developed a habit of drawing them at an extreme angle to keep my hand away. A Pentel brush pen was also used for large patches of shadow.
Thank you!
I did my best to make sure to go halfway for each segment this time, though I'm sure I did not get it exactly... and on a couple of them I missed the ellipse by a bit or didn't curve enough and it wound up looking stiff... more ways to improve though~ at least I think I'm getting to the point where I can see my errors nearly as I make them.
Thank you again for everything you do here!
While I was doing these I tried my best to keep all of your advice in mind...
For the first page I tried the dragonfruit to work on altering the 3d silhouette.
For the second page the strawberry was meant as a refresher for myself on the concepts I used with the original mushroom and the pear, and the two mushrooms were because I had noticed myself avoiding multiple overlapping forms previously.
The two flowers on the third page were to work on removing gaps from my leaf structures as well as working on my connecting points.
And finally the lotus was to make sure I drew every single petal of a complicated flower and to make sure I kept it all proper in my head as I did it.
Thank you again for all your help!
Thank you very much for your insight, I will start working on the 250 box challenge right away and will use the items in this lesson as my daily warm-ups as suggested and will hopefully manage to correct myself through practice over the next two weeks.
Thank you again!
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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