Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
2:04 AM, Wednesday January 19th 2022
If anyone could give me tips about line weight and being more consistent with lines I'd be grateful, thanks in advance
-Starting with the arrows section, you need to prioritize drawing your lines with confidence, try to loosen up a bit and draw them faster to avoid any wobbling. Another point to mention is that the negative space between the zigzagging sections of the ribbon should decrease as it moves further away, you can see it here. When adding lineweight try to be more subtle and only add to the zigzagging sections take a look at the example here.
-Moving on to your leaves they are looking very fluid, the only comment that I have to make is regarding the complex leaf structures, you want to to break the construction of the leave into simpler stages, do not try to tackle the complexity right at the beginning read this demo to get a better idea of how to do this.
-Now moving to your branches there are a number of things to note.
First make sure all of your segments extend fully halfway to the next ellipse, while you have stuck to this rule I think it is important that you keep aiming at achieving smoother transitions. Try to not leave any gaps in the branches, and have each segment hug the ellipses tightly.
Use the tail of the previous segment as a runway, and have them overlapping a good bit, this will make your branches look more fluid instead of stiff. Take a look here
Lastly but no less important, be cognizant of the degree shifts of each ellipse. You can check the lesson 1 ellipses video if you are unsure of what I mean.
Let’s move on to the plant constructions
-Starting with this drawing, draw each petal in its entirety and don’t let them cut off each other, keep in mind that these are just exercises in spatial reasoning and the fact that you can't see something in the reference does not mean it is not there.
If anyone could give me tips about line weight and being more consistent with lines I'd be grateful, thanks in advance
-My advixe for lineweigh and lines would be this: you should give you drawing more space, drawing bigger will helpy out to engage your whole arm when drawing which will help your marks to be more accurate while maintaining good fluidity.
-When drawing pots and any kind of cylindrical structure , make sure you align them to a minor axis, so you don't have to rely on eyeballing and guesswork
-In this plant you drew your branches as lines, the problem with this is that they have no thickness, and this reinforces bad habits as you should not treat your drawing as mere sets of lines.
-Try to add the little arrowheads to the flow lines, a subtle point but it really helps to reinforce the sense of fluidity and tri dimensionality of your leaves and petals.
-You could benefit from drawing fewer ellipses for your branches. This will help you to draw more confident segments to connect them, and it will also help you to focus more on the degree shifts.
So these are my main observations, you are moving in the right direction, as you are clearly building your way up from simple to complex, but we still have to tie up some loose ends
Also I think you got confused with the number of pages, you were asked to do 8 filled pages of plant drawings, so I’ll have you do the missing pag
Next Steps:
-1 page of branches
-2 pages of plant constructions, stick to one plant per page, and don't go past the constructional phase for these ones
honestly really disappointed in myself i wasn't really able to do better but i understand more now,
if this is still not good enough i will gladly do another revision. https://imgur.com/NGTLhME
Okay these are looking more carefully done, and you have kept the degree shifts in mind, so they are looking more solid. Don't worry I know that there is a huge gap between understanding something and actually being able to execute it so just keep practicing regularly. For now it is enough so I’ll let you move on to lesson 4, good luck.
Next Steps:
Lesson 4
thanks i'll be sure to add them to my warm-ups
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