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5:15 PM, Saturday March 23rd 2024

Hello ThatOneMushroomGuy,

Thanks a lot for your extensive feedback. Please, see attached the revisions you asked for:

https://imgur.com/a/nFoqPiF

I know you asked for half page of branches/leaves. I realized too late that I completed a full page of leaves. My apologies for that. I only did half page of branches as requested.

Best,

srpadlop

11:08 PM, Saturday March 23rd 2024

Hello srpadlop, thank you for getting back to me with your revisions.

For your branches you're still not extending your segments completely up to the halfway point between ellipses and this still hurts the quality of your work. You can see here that the red lines show how far you're extending your marks, which is not even 1/4 of the way to the next ellipse, while the blue line shows just how much farther you should be extending your lines.

For your leaves they are actually looking much more fluid and solid but the same issues about your several passes over your marks persist, I can see here, here and here stray marks that should not be present in your work, this leaf of yours is actually a good example of a leaf construction where you didn't do another pass over your marks. You must also not add constructions from other pages to your work, I can see here that you have cut out a leaf construction from a different page and added it to your work, this still counts towards grinding and it leads me to believe you are still doing more work than what was requested, only complete the amount of work requested and only submit what was assigned.

For your plant constructions they are looking much more solid and you're making use of the construction methods and drawing through your forms much more consistently, but there's still room for improvement when it comes to your linework, which is too thick and you're drawing your earlier marks with thinner, fainter lines, and your addition of texture.

You must also keep in mind that because we're drawing on a flat piece of paper, we have a lot of freedom to make whatever marks we choose - it just so happens that the majority of those marks will contradict the illusion you're trying to create and remind the viewer that they're just looking at a series of lines on a flat piece of paper. In order to avoid this and stick only to the marks that reinforce the illusion we're creating, we can force ourselves to adhere to certain rules as we build up our constructions.

  • For example - once you've put a form down on the page, do not attempt to alter its silhouette. Its silhouette is just a shape on the page which represents the form we're drawing, but its connection to that form is entirely based on its current shape. If you change that shape, you won't alter the form it represents - you'll just break the connection, leaving yourself with a flat shape. We can see this most easily in this example of what happens when we cut back into the silhouette of a form.

While this is something that you generally respect there are some spots in this mushroom construction where you have cut back into the forms you've drawn for the cap, which partially flattens the structure.

You can find here more information that talks about how to make use of organic forms to construct plants that aren't simple branches with leaf structures attached to them, and you can see here how you can construct on top of your preexisting structures with new organic forms.

I'm going to be marking this submission as complete, as I believe that in these pages you have demonstrated that you do understand the way these construction methods and techniques should be used and why they're important for your work, but you need to more thorough apply these concepts to your work in order to get the most out of this lesson. Good luck in Lesson 4.

Next Steps:

Don't forget to add these exercises to your list of warm ups.

Move on to Lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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