Hello I’ll be taking a look at your submission for your lesson 3 homework.
-Starting with your organic arrows, you have drawn them with a great deal of confidence, which helped to capture the flusity with which they move through space. You have also kept in mind the foreshortening and the negative space between the zigzagging sections of the ribbon, when adding lineweight and hatching you also did a great job.
-This fluidity carries over to your leaves as well. I like to see that you have drawn leaves with complex structures and integrated them with confident lines. I’ll suggest that you try to add more complex edge details like bumps and cuts for your future practice.
-Your branches are good too, you should strive to have each segment overlapping, with the tail of the previous one, and avoid having visible tails, so that you can achieve smoother transitions. You have kept in mind the degree of your ellipses relative to the positions of the viewer so good job.
Now let’s move on to the plant constructions themselves.
-Taking a look at your mushrooms, make sure you draw each line with the same deal of confidence, avoid any line that has a weaker lineweight or fades away, you want to maintain it consistent so everything keep it solidity.
-Make sure that all of your contour lines hook around the structure they are sitting on, avoid ant straight lines, in this drawing, I can notice a line that is more or less straight and does not convey any sense of depth,
-In general I don’t really have much criticism to offer you as I mentioned before, you have largely done very well here. You've built up each structure steadily, step by step, carrying forward the solidity from those simpler stages of construction as you added more complexity. I'm not really seeing you skipping any constructional steps, and so everything maintains tight, specific relationships with the preceding and supporting structure. I'm also very happy with how you've so clearly made a point of giving each and every mark as much time as you need to execute it to the best of your current ability. As a result, your marks are precise and accurate, while maintaining good fluidity.
Now when it comes to texture, there's no harm in leaving it out for now as you have done for the most part. Still, the thing to keep in mind is that texture is not actually all that different from everything else we're doing here. Just like construction, it's about defining the relationships between different forms in 3D space. The only difference is that these forms are so small and numerous (usually) that if we used the same constructional techniques to capture them (explicit mark making, outlining them in their entirety, drawing them directly, etc.) our drawings would just end up incredibly noisy. But I’m pleased to see that you have focused on cast shadows only and have prioritized the construction.
Next Steps:
You can move on to lesson 4.
Good luck and have a wonderful new year.
Thank you so much for the critique! I'll do my best to make consistent lineweights and try complex details for practice, and I'll keep in mind all the things I need to improve on.
And have a wonderful year too!
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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