11:10 AM, Tuesday October 3rd 2023
Hello Giovany, thank you for responding to seek clarification on a few points, lets see if we can clear up the confusion.
It is good that you've acknowledged rushing as being a source of some of the issues you've run into here, as that is certainly something you can now address. Just in case you've missed it, or possibly forgotten some of the topics covered, you may want to review this video which explains how you can get the most out of this course.
1- No, I am not telling you to draw over contour curves twice, I am telling you to draw around the small ellipses on the ends of the forms that face towards the viewer twice. Here is an image where I've drawn arrows pointing to the specific ellipses I'm talking about.
2- I spoke about this briefly as a quick reminder, as I had already explained this in more depth in your lesson 4 feedback.
One thing I did notice is that many of the instances of cutting into forms (though not all) came down to the fact that your ellipses would come out a little loose (which is totally normal), and then you'd pick one of the inner edges to serve as the silhouette of the ball form you were constructing. This unfortunately would leave some stray marks outside of its silhouette, which does create some visual issues. Generally it is best to treat the outermost perimeter of the ellipse as the edge of the silhouette, so everything else remains contained within it. This diagram shows which lines to use on a loose ellipse.
The area I highlighted in red on your bird construction is an example of this in action. Where you had chosen the inner line of your ellipse to represent the silhouette of the ball form of the head, it left some stray lines outside of your construction, which can be confusing to the viewer, and undermine their suspension of disbelief, reminding them (and you) that the drawing is just lines on a flat piece of paper. I've prepared some further diagrams here to demonstrate the difference between using the outer line and the inner line of ellipses as the basis for construction.
3- I was reluctant to draw onto your hybrid, as the photo is so very dark and blurry, but here we go. This highlights what I mean by cutting your masses off where they pass behind one another. The two red ones are okay, they have complete silhouettes, so we can understand how they connect to the underlying structures in 3D space. The purple ones have been cut off where they pass behind the red masses, so they're partial shapes, which makes it harder to understand how they exist in 3D space. Here I've redrawn the masses, allowing them to overlap in 3D.
4- This section talks about why it helps to draw the eye sockets with specific lines, rather than with ellipses, which isn't a mistake you're making. Although if this is confusing to you, I think it is best to make it clear that we're not drawing any old lines when drawing the eye sockets, as we're carving them into the cranial ball, each line is a partial contour curve, running across the surface of the cranial ball in 3D space. Again, I've made some diagrams that I hope will help you understand the approach. On the left you'll see the informal head demo approach, in the middle are some of the most common mistakes, and on the right I've drawn what it looks like you drew for your hybrid.
Please let me know if any of this is still confusing and I'll find another way to explain.
