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7:59 PM, Tuesday September 15th 2020

Texture and detail is not a major focus of this course. We introduce it because students have pushed for that, but at its core Drawabox focuses on construction and spatial reasoning above all else. So keep that in mind when you decide how to spend your time. There are even plenty of instances where I've asked people to specifically avoid all details/texture as part of their revisions if I feel they're being too distracted by them, to the detriment of their constructions.

10:02 PM, Wednesday September 16th 2020
edited at 10:04 PM, Sep 16th 2020

Here are my revisions. https://imgur.com/a/2hgKFBu

And here are my references if they are of any importance. https://imgur.com/a/1RCapot

I feel that your comment saying I rushed through the plant drawings is 100% true, as I am the type of individual to rush my work, no matter what it is. I have tried my best to pace myself and to slowdown, although I feel like the orange branch drawing was a bit rushed, although everything else was taken slower and I feel that because of it the quality of work for those drawings increased.

I have attempted to improve on all your other points, although some lines still end up a little shaky. My final note, for the Lily drawing, I went over the lines again to add a little weight to them, but I feel that it resulted in a more wobbly and shaky line, compared to what I originally put down. I have left one petal on the lily untouched, to give an idea of how my linework was before I went over it again.

edited at 10:04 PM, Sep 16th 2020
6:31 PM, Thursday September 17th 2020

These are looking vastly better. I do have some suggestions specifically about the lily, and I've marked them out here. The main point is that you appear to be drawing the simple leaf, then redrawing the full edge to incorporate greater complexity. While I'm actually really glad to see that you broke construction down into even more than just 2 phases (in my little bottom-right demo I'm pleased to see that you added the line marked in blue to your drawing instead of jumping right from green to red), redrawing each edge in full is not the correct approach here. Instead we just need to be drawing the part that changes.

When it comes to line weight, additionally remember that again your goal should not be to reinforce the entire stroke, but rather to clarify specific overlaps in particular sections. Because you were aiming for too much, you ended up hesitating and attempting to trace over the lines more slowly, rather than executing that mark with the same confidence with which you'd have drawn the others. Line weight is a targeted thing, focused on specific local areas, and needs to be drawn confidently so that the ends of the stroke taper allowing it to blend back into the original stroke as shown here.

Anyway, aside from that your work here is considerably better and you've shown a far greater propensity for patience and care with your work. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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