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Thank you so much for the video format man, appreciate the time you took to explain it in detail in a video like that!
I really have a low-spec crappy laptop with low storage, I don't think I can do recording or timelapse. But I will try.
You are right, I am rushing way too much. I should take the time to draw and see my mistakes that I am leaving on, like the arrow and not completing the leaves correctly.
Also how did I completely forgot about minor axis, seems like I was just drawing elipes in angles. I will try to keep that in mind.
And yeah, I mistook details for cast shadows, and even when drawing details as shadows, I didn't make it look like shadows and made it look like details instead.
And of course, I will do better 50% next time, instead of leaving rough sketches.
Thanks again for your help!
Here's a summary of the video for people who don't want to watch :
Arrows :
1) Don't rush the arrow's pointers
2) Add more cross hatching
3) Add line weight all the way through where the arrow bends
4) Exaggerate perspective on the arrows bit more
5) Add more folds, don't limit it to only 3
Leaves :
1) Don't draw leaves in one go even if they are small
2) Don't leave them incomplete, complete the structure
3) Don't mistake detail for cast shadows.
4) The minor axis is sometimes not aligned in braches
5) Connect the line by ghosting properly in branches
Plants :
1) The minor axis is sometimes not aligned in braches
2) The bottom ellipse should have wider degree shift since we are looking down.
3) Don't connect the entire branch in one go
4) Don't mistake details for shadows
5) Lines always need to have the same weight, for example the flower's line weight in the pot should not be thinner then the pot's line weight.
6) Make the lines confident, sometimes its very stiff
50% :
1) Don't do rough sketches
2) Don't hide away from what you actually want to draw
3) If you are drawing a fan art, do it in different pose
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Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
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