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Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

6:20 AM, Thursday August 12th 2021

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First off, THANK YOU for taking the time to critique!

Most of these constructions honestly suck, so please be as brutal with the critique as you like.

I am fully willing to do more/redo any number of these if needed.

The biggest problem I had in this chapter was Anxiety-wobbliness . Gave me the stress as if I was giving an exam. It was honestly extremely frustrating how I just couldn't make smooth marks (despite being able to do so decently previously in my warmups, in which I've started having the same problems now). This was the most prominent in ellipses and adding line weight.

Any advice on this would also be very heavily appreciated.

Again, thank you for taking the time to critique. And all the best with your own art journeys!

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7:11 PM, Saturday August 28th 2021
edited at 7:14 PM, Aug 28th 2021

Don't worry you will not need to redo any of them.

The flow of tour arrows is pretty good and your leaves are good too.

  1. The use of construction in your first plant is good but you need to work on your confidence

  2. Be careful to not flatten out your forms with the detail and the blobs, the cactus is a relatively simple construction so be careful with those little details.

Despite tour wobbly lines your constructions feel pretty organic. So good job

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The main problem seems to be your confidence and the use of line weight, so keep working on that

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edited at 7:14 PM, Aug 28th 2021
7:18 AM, Tuesday September 7th 2021

Thank you for the critique!

Making smooth lines is honestly stressful, it's gonna be one hell of an accomplishment to improve them lol. I'll start paying very conscious attention to my confidence/smoothness from now on.

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