Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
5:32 AM, Thursday April 18th 2024
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7:02 AM, Sunday July 21st 2024
Hi! I will be the one giving you feedback for this lesson! First of all, congratulations on finishing this exercise!
Organic Arrows
The stroke of the arrows are confident which I really appreciate. However, there are two things I want to point out. The first is that some of the lines connected the two curves felt like they were placed a bit higher than it is supposed to be, making it looked like it was not part of the arrow. I also saw some of this line was angled a bit off so they didn't connect.
The second thing I want to point out is that most of the shadings you done seems to be on the opposite side of where the shading should be. So the shading of the arrow should be done on the side to which the hills are covered by the other, essentially where a shadow would be casted. A lot of the shadings you done seem to be drawn on the side to which shadow should not form because it was not covered by anything. Here is an example from the exercise: https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/4/example
Branches
Your lines are mostly confident and I really like that you varied the width of the ellipses depending on the way people views it (facing the viewer will have a wider ellipses). The mistakes there are something that everyone has experienced when doing this exercise which was having trouble connecting the line between the two ellipses. I'm sure with time you will get to improve this further, so I think what you did here was already pretty good.
Leaves
The leaves have enough bend and twist to help incoporate the fact that it is a 3d object, which I really like. The texture work is pretty good and highlighted the skeleton of the leaves. I think the hardest the more out-of-there leaves are the one you struggled the most as I saw a bit of corrections in the line, but I'm sure with practice you can do it. Do be careful that corrections may cause the line weight to be heavier than it is and may make it hard for viewer to discern what is at the front and on the back. Other than that, I think you should be a bit careful with the leaves on the upper right corner since the teeth on the edge looked like it was drawn "auto pilot" as in without much thought on it's stroke. Here is what I meant: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/3/consistent
Plants Construction
Overall, I think the shapes are drawn in a way that makes me believe that this plant has volume and 3 dimensional shapes. Some of the shadings you done are really cool, like the mushroom and the one that plants that was growing with rocks all around it.
However, on around image 6 and eight, it seems like the cast shadow might feel a little bit too extreme. Especially image 6, mostly on the leaves (NOT on the mushroom) where the cast shadow would just cover the almost the whole leaves. I think it's better to leave some white space (like some of the segments you have on the leaves on image 6) to make it look like it's has texture instead of just black ink. I am guilty of this mistake when I was doing it and the person who criticized me point out a good thing, which was to not to directly copy all the shadows from the reference. When it comes to shapes, copying is important. However when it comes to light and shadow, it is alright to use an imaginary light source and then combine it with the knowledge of the texture we have on the image.
On image 8, I feel like some of the shadows for the leaves felt a more like an ink blob, indicated by the rounded shape around the edges of the leave instead of a sharper shadow. There was careful attempt to not make everything dark like what is underneath image 6. One of the hardest thing I found when doing this exercise is when to not / do make that patch dark or not. While it easy to just color certain part of it black to indicate a change of color, I think using it to just mark the shadows that is casted from one parts to the other would give more "pop" for the 3d shapes that you are about to draw.
Conclusion:
Overall, your lines are confident and you did most of what the exercise wanted you to do. However, I might request a small revision for the exercise :D
Next Steps:
1 pages of organic arrow, be sure to keep the shadings on the correct side to indicate that the bends are underneath the other (check: https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/organicarrows)
1:32 AM, Tuesday July 23rd 2024
Hi, thanks for taking a look at my work. I have the requested corrections, but when I was uploading them, I noticed they were upside-down and the shadings were on the wrong side. I went back to the organic arrows in the original submission, rotated it 180 degrees, and it looked fine. It seems like my phone's weird camera had something to do with it.
Here's the requested corrections (and rotated original organic arrows):
12:35 AM, Wednesday July 24th 2024
Awesome :D I'm going to mark the lesson as complete but that was solid. Good luck on the next lesson!
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