9:29 PM, Sunday February 9th 2020
I saw on your comment that you were going to do redo some stuff from this lesson, but I'm going to go over it quickly to point you a few things.
Arrows same thing I was talking about on your lesson 2 critique, make them grow as they come towards the viewer.
branches remember to divide the borders in different overlapping strokes. You've done it in some of them, but even then, make the next stroke overlapping the previous one way back, so the transition is smoother. You also got some wobbly contours on the bottom right branch for example so be careful with that too.
For complex branches, like the on you did on the bottom, remember to apply the method described on the page of this specific exercise. So go back into it and give it a read.
leaves For the left leaf on your page, remember to take this approach described here . Draw each leaf individually, and then connect them. For the contours, you got some fraying at both ends in some of them, so try to be careful in each one of them.
For detail, rely on reference and apply the same methods you applied on the texture exercises on lesson 2, focus only on shadows, don't rely on contours.
And into your plant drawings I wanna point out a few things.
First one is, don't do shading. Only shading you can do is by applying black cast shadows, just like in the texture exercises, and to show texture, nothing else.
On drawings such as this, they are complex enough to be drawn on a whole page. So don't hesitate to do it. You could have drawn one plant per page, and that would be totally okay, and in fact, it's what I recommend. You have skipped the flow lines for the leaves on this drawing. Every leaf on the plant drawings, should be approached just like the ones on the technical exercises. Don't skip steps. And the same goes for the roses. Everything should be constructed back to it's most basic forms, on the roses for example, you could have simplified them to a ball, and add the petals from there. Don't just add a 2d shape and add detail to it.
Other problem is that some of your subjects are a bit rushed, like these ones: No matter how complex the subject it is, don't scribble construct each part of the plant carefully, and if you feel you are starting to rush, then take a break. But every line you do should be planned carefully and ghosted.
And always draw through your forms. Here for example you skipped it. Again, always construct every part of the subject back to its simplest forms, drawing through them. Detail is secondary.
Another thing is trees, like you drew here. You shouldn't draw them for this lesson, and even if you did, again break down its simplest forms, like this.
Next Steps:
You can post the stuff you said you wanted to redo here, I recommend to do your plant drawings taking the whole page for each subject you do, and remember to draw through each form, not to shade other than with black shapes of black with fineliner, and to construct everything back to its simplest forms, good luck, and keep up the good work!
