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1:59 PM, Tuesday October 1st 2024
Hello , i'll do what i can to critique your work
1: Arrows
I don't have much to say for these as they are flowy , but be sure to draw the arrows with confident strokes , i noticed you stopped a lot and retraced your lines.
2: LEAVES
You've done really well on making the leaves flow!
In regards to textures , be sure that you don't draw as single lines, as you see here , it's be best to draw the shadow shapes to create textures
You made them overlap quite a lot which is great, i also think you did really well with the leaves' edges , you prevented zigzagging and drew each bump by itself, you could probably benefit from drawing "additionally" (ie: draw the bumps outside of your outline , not inside) so be sure to vary it when you draw more leaves!
3: BRANCHES These are really good , but i noticed that you did skip some steps in a couple of them , be sure to ghost your line so it moves past the second ellipse and halfway throught the third as it says on this page .
that said, you did improve a lot when moving on to the actual plant constructions' branches so it's hardly a problem , just remember it if you do warmups.
4: PLANTS
These are good! there's a couple things that stood out however.
First of all i noticed that you drew your textures as single lines and/or outline entire forms (like in this cactus ) , be sure that , as in the leaves exercise, you only draw the shadow shapes themselves.
this is a minor thing but always be sure to give some width/variation to any line, i mean this specifically for this plant's "hairs" , it's very easy for single lines to break the illusion of 3D, this also goes for most textures.
I did see that you've already finished drawabox apparently , i was writing the critique and didn't check first but i still hope this helps in some way, i still think aside from some textures (which are optional) you passed quite easily.
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