Hi. That's my lesson 3 homework. Sorry about mix up with numbers on the page. All the pages are here, just miscounted while doing it. Also I decided not to do texture or details in the later ones not because of laziness, but because I think I needed to focus more on construction. Looking forward to critiques.
Hello I’ll be handling the critique or your lesson 3 homework.
Technical Exercises
-Starting with the arrows you have drawn them with a good deal of confidence, which really helped you capture the fluidity with which they move through space. You are also doing a good job when it comes to the perspective of the ribbon and the negative space between the zigzagging sections of the arrow. Lastly, your applications of lineweight are looking clean and the hatching is tydy rather than rushed.
-This fluidity carries over fairly well onto your leaves, which look really organic and I like to see that you have added the little bumps and cuts without sacrificing the validity of the preceding structure. On the future I’d like you to try more complex leaf structures like the one shown here
-On the branches you are doing a great job extending each segment fully halfway to the next ellipse, but I do catch some instances where you fall short so try to keep working on this. You also have them overlapping a good bit which helps you to achieve a smoother transition, and lastly it is great to see that you have thought about the degree shifts of each ellipse. Your work on these technical exercises is pretty good already.
Plant Construction
-The work you are doing here is turning out nicely, I do not see that you are skipping any constructional steps, and as such all of your constructions look really solid. Also I can see that you are starting dead simple and gradually working your way up, bringing the solidity of those earlier stages to the more complex ones. That said, I want to call out a few things.
-When forking your branches try to follow the method highlighted here, you strayed a little bit from this method on these plants for example
-On the plant on the left side of this page you have overdone the lineweight a little bit, remember that if you end up making the lineweight too thick you will take the solidity of your forms away and turn them into mere graphic shapes. Lineweight is a tool better used to clarify overlaps as shown here. Cast shadows can also help to visually organize your drawing, but the thing to keep in mind is that they follow different rules, as they must be projected from one surface to another even if that surface is further away, and they cannot cling to the silhouette of any existing form.
-Another thing important to remember is that you should give each drawing as much room as it requires, some of your plants are turning out really small, this may be something you want to think about in the future, That said I think it did not affect your drawings that much as all of them are looking confident and really nice.
Those are some of the main observations I wanted to make. You did a really great job here, and I have no doubt you are prepared for lesson 4. I'll go ahead and mark this as complete. Good luck.
Next Steps:
Lesson 4
Hi,
Thank you for the critique. I just wanted to ask a few questions. What examples did you mean by this: "When forking your branches try to follow the method highlighted here, you strayed a little bit from this method on these plants for example"? The link you provided just took me to "Forking branches" page.
Also, this lesson and further ones ask for multiple pages of construction drawings. I was just wondering how filled up pages should we try to do? Is it enough to do couple of drawing per page (like I did in this time) or try to fill up more?
Thanks again.
This image in particular shows how you should approach forking branches.
Regarding your other question, The best approach to use here is to ensure that the first drawing on a given page is given as much room as it requires. Only when that drawing is done should we assess whether there is enough room for another. If there is, we should certainly add it, and reassess once again. If there isn't, it's perfectly okay to have just one drawing on a given page as long as it is making full use of the space available to it.
Hopefully that clears your doubts, good luck on lesson 4
Okay, thank you again.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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