4:00 AM, Sunday December 13th 2020
thank you! hows your wheel challenge going?
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stoneeblu223
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8:40 PM, Friday December 11th 2020
I did another object another perfume bottle i tried to keep in mind what you said and avoid guess work. I re-watched the speaker demo and realized what I was doing wrong. Feel free to check that out in my sketch book. thanks again.
6:00 PM, Friday December 11th 2020
Thank you for the helpful critique! I will take into account what you said!
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7:40 AM, Tuesday July 7th 2020
Your organic arrows look great just add more shading to them to help show which part is in front of which.
Add more line weight to parts of your leaf drawings to show the overlaps more clearly.
Your branches look fine just keep practicing to make your lines overlap better.
For your plant drawings some of them do not show the textures wrapping around the forms properly. For example on the second page the mushrooms don't really show the texture wrapping around the form. The texture just below the mushrooms head looks too flat.
Also even though you are not supposed to be copying your reference exactly still try and look closer at your reference and draw what you see more accurately as some of your proportions are way off especially on the pitcher plant drawings. Do not worry too much about making your drawing look exactly like your reference but don't go too far from your reference either. Make sure your forms still somewhat resemble what you see.
Next Steps:
Go to Lesson 4 but keep in mind what I have said about looking closer at your references.
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7:18 AM, Tuesday July 7th 2020
One of the main things you need to improve is making things look as though they are in a 3D space and not on a flat piece of paper.
Look back on the first part of lesson 2 which talks about Thinking in 3D then try to do the organic arrows exercise again and this time make the arrows look more like they are traveling in a 3D world. Give the arrows more depth traveling into the page and don't be afraid to try and do different types of arrows. it looks like you kept drawing the same type of arrow just different sizes.
As for your leaf drawings try to make your contour lines less straight and more curved around the flat form of the leafs next time. Also if you are applying texture to them make the textures travel around the shape of the leaves and look closer at the textures.
The rest looks fine. You seem to understand everything else just keep practicing to make your drawings more accurate.
Next Steps:
Go back over lesson 2 "Thinking in 3D", try to understand it better and then do another page of the organic arrows exercise. Good luck (:
4:37 PM, Monday June 29th 2020
Thanks anyway. I think will do that too actually.
5:14 PM, Monday June 22nd 2020
Hello! Your critique of my lesson 1 submission was very useful, would you mind critiquing my 250 box challenge submission too please?
10:02 PM, Monday June 8th 2020
Thanks that cleared things up for me! I will work on improving those areas.
2:21 PM, Monday June 8th 2020
Thank you for your critique! I have a few questions though. Firstly, what do you mean when you say on my funnels exercise some of them are not aligned with the y-axis? My second question is can you explain further the problems you noticed on the lower layer of my rotated boxes exercise? Thanks again!
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