Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
1:30 PM, Wednesday September 23rd 2020
By using the "volume" arrows with the combination of simple forms, drawing plants and other things I draw outside of Drawabox as part of the 50% rule has been much easier with the help of visualizing simple forms in real three-dimensional space. I still need a hell of a lot of practice with grasping real forms that interact with each other, but I'll look into that as part as my warmup later on. There's still some things, like the rose in particular, that confuses me with it's sheer amount of individual small forms that blends with each other. During the optional part of applying the textures to the last 4 plants, I also realized that I have trouble seeing actual details, and even more so of knowing how to interpretate that onto the drawing itself. All in all a good lesson, I can definitely see myself using these later in my warmups.
On another note, the idea of using arrows as the "spine" of forms with volume has helped me out greatly in my private projects, specifically when I was working with animating and drawing fire particles which seem to be volumes of forms blending into, and dissipating, from each other.