Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
8:58 PM, Thursday March 19th 2020
Here's my homework for lesson 3 ! Thank you in advance for the critics !
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9:19 AM, Saturday March 21st 2020
Remember that for the branch exercises, you're expected to draw with curves. In a large number of your branches, and quite a few of the stems of your plant studies, you use straight and stiff lines. This shows a lack of confidence; you should try to loosen up a bit, spend longer ghosting if that helps you, and don't be afraid to miss the marks - I'm at lesson 5 and still often miss my marked out points, but that's a secondary concern to confidence in mark making. When going through Drawabox, you should first aim for confidence and then try to improve accuracy once your lines flow well.
Your sunflower study could use contours on the seed pod section - right now it feels like a flat circle, which couldn't be further from what it is. Make sure you always do your best to show the form of something, and employ contour lines for all of your organic forms - these help both you and your eventual viewer understand the 3D form of the objects.
Similarly for the unlabeled round bush plant - I can't be sure that you didn't use contour lines there since it's heavily textured, but I can't seem to find any traces of them. While the end viewer wouldn't see them when you texture something like this, it's still good practice to place contours to help yourself apply the texture - remember the texture wrapping from the texture dissection exercises, which is a technique you underutilized here, as the texture feels homogeneous and flat.
Next Steps:
You should be good to move onto the next lesson, but try to come back to previous exercises in warmups - particularly the contour sausages and texture dissections, which involve important concepts to apply elsewhere. Also keep practicing your branches in the same warmups, as it's a good exercise to improve the flow of your lines.
4:22 PM, Saturday March 21st 2020
Thank you for the review !
Yeah, I am aware of my lack of confidence and I will continue to work on it with the warm-up exercises !
The round bush plant is an artificial plant I found at my parents ^^
For the leafy part I made a big circle and that's all...I think I understand what you mean, I'd should have add contour lines to give volume to the bush and draw the leaves over it...I took the initiative for this one and the sunflower and made mistakes, so thank you for the critique and I'll keep all that in my mind !
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