Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

10:25 PM, Tuesday October 6th 2020

Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants - Google Drive

Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Kr50AFnZvBaEqSdzH8PtAFJ78pm0rxP5?usp=sharing

Hi! I really had fun with this lesson, although it took me more than i'd like to admit. Sometimes its hard to get on the mood, anyways, I enjoyed every exercise here, and found them really challenging and helpful.

In the plant construction part I did a full page with both construction and textured version of the subjects (a sort of study page, like with the textures in prev. lessons), i know the instructions said differently, but at the end I ended up with more drawings and practice overall. Also I did more arrows and leaves practices by my own because I was feeling like I could push them a little bit further, but I just posted one for the sake of keeping it simple for review.

Thank you in advance for your time on reviewing it!

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7:45 PM, Friday November 6th 2020

Starting with your arrows, they aren't getting closer to the viewer, make sure you aim to make them bigger and bigger as they go towards him. .

On the branches you're mainly doing a good job, you're lines are pretty confident. On the ellipses which you haven't drawn through 2 times, don't forget to always draw through them.

And on the branches themselves, they have visible tails and get a bit wobbly at times. To make this better you can try to superimpose the lines of the branches more with the previous ones. It will make easier to achieve smooth transitions.

Leaves are pretty good too, just keep in mind that when you approach textures you should do it from reference and only drawing cast shadows, as explained on lesson 2.

And on the plants you're doing a good job too, though there are a few issues I want to mention.

First one is not adhering to your construction. There are a few times where you just draw a form, like a ball or an ellipse, and you start drawing inside of it as if it was just a 2d shape. Every form you put into the drawing is a 3d form, so you can't ignore it. Here is an example of this.

Second is textures. When drawing them, make sure you first draw a shape and then fill it. You're in general relying a lot on just lines, so making this 2 step process will force you to think in shapes. When drawing them make sure you only draw cast shadows as well, as I explained on the leaves section. An example.

Another thing I explained in the image is drawing through ellipses. On this course every time you draw through a ball like form or an ellipse, you'll have to draw it 2 times always. Don't forget about it.

Third is the minor axis. There is one mushroom where you drew it, but not in the others. Make sure you do it on every form that has an axis, even a pot. It'll make alligning the ellipses much easier.

And last thing I wanted to talk about is small drawings. There are a lot of drawings you struggled with because you were trying to draw too small (like the ones where you drew super little branches), probably because you wanted to fit more drawings on a page.

Don't worry about this. Make sure every drawing has as much space as you need. If drawing a plant bigger will make it easier for you, even if it's only because of the size its ellipses, don't hesitate to draw one plant per page.

Overall like I said good job! Outside of the things I said your plants and lines are pretty solid, so I'm going to be marking this as complete. Good luck in lesson 4 and keep up the good work!

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4:36 AM, Saturday November 7th 2020

thank you very much! I appreciate this extreme detail on critiquing! I'll go and have a couple more tries with these you pointed out. have a nice day!

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3:15 PM, Wednesday October 7th 2020
edited at 3:16 PM, Oct 7th 2020

The link to your gallery is broken Nevermind. I think it's my connection.

edited at 3:16 PM, Oct 7th 2020
3:30 PM, Thursday October 8th 2020

It seems to be ok the link, were you able to see it yet?

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