Any things I should practise? maybe any exercises I should use as a warmup more often because I am really lacking relative to the rest of my skills? should i just carry on with lesson 3? thanks, person who is reviewing my work, uncomfortable and everyone else who made this happen. Thanks.
Arrows
Arrows feel pretty well through the page, though the linework is a bit sratchy. Don't forget you should be drawing all lines applying ghosting with your shoulder, and drawing them confidently. After drawing the initial lines with the arrows you can add lineweight to clarify overlaps, but don't overdo it. Do it with one single superimposed line, again, ghosted, and focusing confidence over accuracy.
Don't forget to draw through your forms too, even if some arrows overlap each other. You can clarify their relationship after with a single superimposed line on the section that overlaps.
Organic forms
They mantain mostly the form we're aiming for, so good job! They do have some pointing ends at times, so don't forget that those forms are made up by 2 identical balls connected by a tube of cosnistent width
About the degrees, they should be shifting. Even if the sausages are completely straight, the viewer will have a different relationship between the section of the sausage, as shown on these top and front views roughly .
Textures
On texture you've done a p good job overall, though you are focusing a bit on lines instead of shapes. Avoid drawing lines entirely, as explained on the lesson, only draw shapes. If you can't see shapes on the textures you're drawing, zoom more on the reference.
Form intersections
Don't forget to take time on each box as you did on the box challenge, some of those have divergences, and they are a bit scratchy. Just like in all the other exercises, don't repeat lines no matter how wrong they are, and when coming again with lineweight, focus on confidence too. If you fail a line, leave it be, keep going as if it had been correct. If you do correct it, the drawing will appear much more confusing than if you didn't.
When drawing through ellipses and balls, just like in previous exercises, do it twice only, and with ghosting and drawing confidently.
Organic intersections
These look mostly solid overall, though they got some issues.
First is lineweight. Here as well always prioritize confidence over accuracy.
Second is drawing through forms, always draw through them. You can clarify which parts can the viewer see with lineweight after.
And third is simple sausages. On this exercise as well, you should try to avoid complex forms, so stick to the same ones as in the organic forms exercises.
Next Steps:
You're doing a good job, but I wanna check if you understood some of my points as they are pretty important concepts, so I'm going to ask you to do:
-1 more page of arrows
-1 more page of organic forms with ellipses
-1 more page of organic forms with contour lines
-1 more page of form intersections.
Good luck and keep it up! Don't forget to focus on confident and ghost all your lines on those. Don't repeat lines and don't add lineweight to a part of a line or a line more than once.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Sr3Mkas
Still struggling but thanks to your critique, I can struggle upward. Thank you so much Elodin!
Alright that's much better! Linework is cleaner overall, there are still some issues, so I'll point them out so you can correct them.
On arrows, linework is still a bit wobbly, like I said, add only superimposed lines on overlaps, and do it only once, even if the overlap fails. Another thing that will help to keep the lineweight smoother is to superimpose more the strokes you do with the actual arrow, like I do here.. Just remember, a confident line, no matter how inaccurate, will always be better than a wobbly line in these exercises. Accuracy will come with time
In general they flow p well and feel pretty 3d, so good job!
On sausages the same, you seem to be doing well the sausage form themselves in general, and you're shifting the degrees of the ellipses, but you are prioritizing accuracy to confidence. Remember to always prioritize confidence.
Another thing is that you aren't hooking your contours in some sausages, careful with that.
On form intersections, you're doing better, but again, never repeat a line. If the line is off, don't worry about it, keep going to the next line, but don't repeat it as it will only make the drawing more messy. There are some instances where you overshoot your lines quite a bit, which hints me you might be rushing some lines or not plotting them. Just in case, don't forget to plot all your lines before drawing them, drawing starting and ending dots, and ghosting until you feel confident in drawing that line.
But like I said good job overall, you're making progress so I'll mark this as complete. Next step is lesson 3, but as I see you've already completed it, so I'll try to critique it soon so you can keep going.
Next Steps:
Lesson 3
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