migrainerehearsal

Thanks. Do you have any advice on how to practice/study shadow casts? Is there any software I could use to quickly setup forms, a view-point, and try sketching the projected shadow?

Thanks for that feedback. I've drawn quite a few sausages in the meantime and tried to incorporate your feedback.

Here is the images for resubmission: https://imgur.com/a/zSM2qwQ

I've also created a new sketchbook for the resubmission: https://drawabox.com/community/submission/2KA9UE76

I'm not sure the correct way to do a resubmission. I cannot find guidance or instructions on resubmissions in the discord or website.

Let me know if you'd like me to do something different.

Hey!

Thank you for the really thoughtful and actionable feedback. This type of guidance is the reason I signed up for draw a box.

I had a few questions to make sure I understood everything clearly.

, by utilizing it in both the arrows themselves as well as the negative space between their curves we can create a stronger illusion of an object moving through 3D space as demonstrated here.

By negative space you mean the distance between the lines here and not the shapes made by the white area between the lines, right?? So to push foreshortening on the arrows (during warm-ups), I'd go with directions that emphasize the space between the lines growing as they approach the viewer?

your forms are getting a bit too complex.

Do you mean that the ends tend to be pinched? That's something I felt like I'm struggling with, getting nice rounded ends as if spheres were there. The way I go about constructing them is as follows:

1. create a top line

2. create a bottom line using target points I place relative to the top line

3. try and ghost whatever I think the sphere placed at the end would look like

I worry that step (3) is pinching the ends of my organic forms. I'll reread and rewatch the material but that was one question I had as soon as I started drawing those shapes.

I'd like to try placing two roughly equally sized spheres and connecting those but I'm not sure if that ruins the exercise in that the entire sphere is visible inside the organic form.

Speaking of contours I'd like you to try and shift the degree of your contours more

Fantastic. I thought the contours were too uniform but wanted another's opinion. I'll try pushing the degree more.

In the texture exercises (more so in your dissections) you're focusing largely on outlines and negative space rather than cast shadows created by forms along the texture itself

This is interesting! I put in lines thinking that they were shadows from the images. For example scratch and little crevices. Am I focusing too much on small details for cast shadows versus some large volumes? To be clear I found this exercise incredibly challenging and look forward to putting more practice into this area.

you need a bit more time becoming comfortable with thinking of how these forms interact in 3D space and how they'd wrap around one another.

One question I had after watching the video and the reading the page was understanding just how much these shapes are allowed to deform and warp. The demo video doesn't show major warping whereas the the example image at the bottom has an almost flattened sausage. Is the flattened sausage not too complex? Or am I focusing on the wrong thing here?

I recommend pushing your light source to the top left or right corner of the page to start with

Thanks for the idea. I'll work with that.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds upon each other and I'd like to make sure you understand a few of these concepts a bit more before potentially creating more problems down the road.

Appreciate it. I'll reread the various exercises and videos and then resubmit "2 page of the organic intersections exercise".

Thank you again for the thoughtful feedback and help!

Cheers!

Thank you for the really helpful feedback. I had been wondering about hatching and sizing a bit. A few questions as I quite enjoy this as a warm-up exercise.

1. do you have any examples of a sheet with boxes of a larger size and spacing? My main concern was keeping the boxes far enough apart so that I could see where the lines converge

2. I noted early on and throughout the exercise that my lines would converge in pairs rather than all at once. Any advice or other exercises I can try and do to fix this?

Sorry about that! Noted for next time. Here's a smaller file. It's ~20mb.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g_7JInibz-ElU_YaiQl93aZs0d9c3ZFf/view?usp=sharing

Let me know if that's still too large for you.

Thanks for the feedback Rob! I appreciate the encouragement and your recommendations.