Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
7:39 AM, Thursday December 10th 2020
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11:05 PM, Sunday December 20th 2020
Hi Wifu4Lifu,
I've checked your submission,
You did a good job on Organic Arrows, you mantain their solidity while also giving them a great flow. The only thing I can give you advice is don't be too subtle with your line weight.
Leaves are also looking really good, I especially like how you are constructing on top of your forms.
Seeing your branches I see that you corrected your lines over the course of the lesson, good job with that. Though, another thing that I see is that you are varying the degrees of your ellipses, which is good, but you are being too shy about it sometimes. You are making a step on the right directions, so don't be afraid of doing it a little more visible.
Your Plants in general look like you are constructing some forms really good, but others are not getting the same kind of attention. Also, there is a thing about visual clarity and the use of line weight that I want to touch on.
First of all, whenever you are applying any kind of ellipse, not only take your time to ghost them, but also only go through them twice, more than this make everything too messy. Also, remember that just ellipses don't really look 3d, so in order for you to have a stronger belief on them, apply some contour curves on them.
Now, I see a lot of your plants and they are well constructed, but some of them are pretty messy to look at, remember that for that we have line weight and shadows, these are not aesthetic choices from this course, they are tools that we use to communicate things to the viewer, in this case what's on top of what. Here is a demo on how I would make your tomato plant a little more clear, I didn't do the whole thing cause I subestimated how much it would take make. Also, sorry for writing over your drawing, I didn't have a lot of space to work with!
I'm gonna mark this lesson as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 4!
If you are interested on working a little more on applying some cast shadows and line weight to your other plants, go ahead and do it and send them to me through a reply, even though you can already move on to the next lesson, I'm gonna take a look at it!
2:56 PM, Monday December 21st 2020
Thanks for the feedback! About the plants. I wasn't sure about whether to apply line weight to the plants or constructing on top of the forms for construction-only plants. I didn't know how far i could go and i did apply line weight later on here but I'll take your point on adding shadows as well. I didn't know that was allowed on the pages not meant to move beyond the construction phase.
7:06 PM, Monday December 21st 2020
Right, it's a common misconception that line weight and shadows are considered to be texture, but as I have already stated, we use them as tools for communication.
Also, yes, I really like how it turned out with the line weight, it's way more clearer.
I'm glad you found my review useful! Keep it up
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