Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
12:50 AM, Wednesday February 16th 2022
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2:45 AM, Tuesday March 1st 2022
Organic Arrows
Your arrows are confidently drawn & smooth. I can also see that you've tried to do the lineweight neart he curves, which is good just try not to trace the previous mark slowly as they leave wobbly lines.
Leaves
Your leaves are following the flow line for most part(other than sometimes in folded ones) You should try doing more folded leaves in your future warm ups as I didn't see much variety here. Use references if you can.
Branches
These brances could use some ellipses near extreme curves, like you should be maintaining uniform distance between the edges of branches & having more ellipses in between would help.
Plants
These palnts drawing are good, leaves & petals are following their flow line most of the time.
You've also kept the part of plants enclosed in it's planned ellipse.
In #1 the leaves are not following their flow lines, especially the folded ones, try to do them more than usual in your warm ups.
Especially the drawing marked as #4 has a good construction. For #3 & #5 if those lines that seems kind of stray are part of the construction then it's okay but try to not have any chicken scratchy lines in your drawings(especially in #5).
Overall you've done the lesson as instructed though it would be good if you improve on branches a bit
Next Steps:
Congrats on completing lesson 3, feel free to start lesson 4. Please continue to work on branches & folded leaves whenver you can, also exercises from previous lesson & challenge in your warm ups. Good luck with lesson 4.
3:41 AM, Friday March 11th 2022
Thanks for kind and detailed feedback.
I get your point.
I'll keep on practicing branches and folded leaves(I'll check the lesson about folded leaves once again)
'#5'.. I knew I was using lots of chicken scratches and I'm glad you pointed that out.
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