Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
7:55 PM, Sunday May 30th 2021
Thanks for your time and effort for giving me critiques in advance!
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3:35 PM, Monday June 7th 2021
Good day!
Your arrows should compress. Here's a quote from a teaching assistant:
The arrows need to get bigger and bigger as they go towards the viewer. Both in size, and the spacing between each fold.
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Leaves are pretty good overall, initial form is respected and details are great.
Branches are a bit wobbly but you got the gist of the exercise. When you add them to warmups you will improve in those in no time (your plant construction branches have visible tails, so make sure you do those in warmups if you don't do it already).
Another thing I wanted to note is that you have a rather thick outline around objects. That shouldn't be done. Usually it's fine to keep the outline as it is but if you want to add more emphasis, one extra line is usually good enough, you want to keep it subtle.
About branches in your plants. I noticed that you don't have too much branches and most of them are rather straight. I noticed you have that one mushroom with a big loop which is a bit inconsistent in width. The way I keep sharp turns nice and consistent is I add extra ellipses there (in this case I might add 1 or 2). It may feel weird to have a lot ellipses in 1 place but if that helps you to be more accurate, it is well worth doing.
Next Steps:
Move on to next lesson and add arrows, branches and leaves to your wamups, paying more attention to arrow compression and branches.
3:51 PM, Monday June 7th 2021
Thank you for your feedback! I will keep your words in mind.
BTW, can you please send me a picture of the mushroom you mentioned? I didn't understand your suggestion about it because I couldn't recognize which one you were saying.
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