10:57 PM, Sunday February 19th 2023
Hi ThatOneMushroomGuy, thank you very much for your feedback. I understand most of what you told me, but I have to ask about the texture points again since it somewhat feels like this is not really addressed properly in the lectures. My main question is: What are we supposed to draw? It feels like every exercise shifts what the focus of texture should be. The first sausage exercise wants us to draw shade and how it lands on other forms to describe them. That results in large areas of shadow, but there it is "correct" to do so. Now you pointed out this approach is incorrect because it does not describe form. Now I have to wonder how that would apply to most flowerss given that they have mostly smooth petals and small stems that can hardly show such form changes by adding texture. In fact the demo videos that show how to apply texture seem to be outlining details which I understand is also wrong.
So looking back at the Edelweiss drawing: How could I have applied texture correctly? Could I even have done it "correctly" with this definition? There is not much form that can be described with texture other than the roundness of the stem so what are we supposed to do in this instance? Not use texture at all? Only draw a large image of the blossom? But if i did that, the petals would also be mostly smooth so I would end up with large shadow areas again.