Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
4:05 PM, Tuesday July 21st 2020
please feel free to look at my work. It took time to finish this.
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5:57 PM, Tuesday July 21st 2020
First of all Congratulations on finishing the Homework.
-The Organic Arrows look great, they flow well and the perspective looks believable
-Your Leaves also flow well, but the more detailed ones seem flat and two dimensional, I would recomand you to do this as warm up before the other homeworks to get a better hang of it
-The Branches are great too
-The demos look great I can see that you understood the instructions well, but the cactuses feel really flat (haver the same problem, cactuses are hard).
The best way to work on cactuses is to draw them a lot, try to draw the construction first without details and then place a bit of details later on ( with a bit I mean that you don't have to draw all the spikes. just a few so the viewer gets a feel for it)
2:47 PM, Wednesday July 22nd 2020
Thank you for taking the time to look at my homework. I also noticed that the textured leaf look 2d. Right cactuses are hard, they look simple so I thought it would not be hard to do but look, my cactuses drawing looks flat. They are harder than they look.
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