Lesson 6: Applying Construction to Everyday Objects

7:46 PM, Monday November 1st 2021

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Lesson 6. This is by far the most difficult lesson from the beginning, at least to me. But quite honestly it was a pleasure to struggle with space issues, thanks to my headaches I reached a whole new level of spatial understanding. Thanks DaB, thank you Uncomfortable, the knowledge you're sharing means a lot in my art journey.

Regarding my homework, I must say that I used a tablet for one of my drawings. I know you banned it but when I tried to draw the object on paper there were too many details, it was really tight. (that's what she said)

It would have taken a paper the size of a wall.

Anyway, thanks for your time.

PS : excuse my English if you didn't understand everything.

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8:40 PM, Wednesday November 3rd 2021

Starting with your form intersections, you're doing a great job demonstrating strong, well developed spatial skills, both in how you've constructed your forms here to feel cohesive and consistent within the same space, but also in the way in which you've defined the intersections themselves. I'm also quite impressed with how your freehand ellipses are coming along - while they're not perfectly tight just yet, they're definitely close enough not to pose a hindrance to your ability to communicate visually, and that is frankly a lot more than what I'd expect at this stage (simply because ellipses are so troubling).

Moving onto the object constructions, it is quite normal for you to have found this lesson's content to be especially difficult. It's at this point that we really come to a point where the course asks us to go from working more organically, with a greater tolerance for approximation and eyeballing, to really having to pin things down with precision. Since this is the first point where this becomes a concern, we pretty much accept that many students will, as they transition into this different way of thinking through their drawings (or rather, to take what they've already been doing and to push it much farther), push themselves to a certain threshold, before they kind of throw in the towel and eyeball the rest. It's quite common to see this, and while it's something we expect to be completely resolved by Lesson 7, we make some room for it here.

Fortunately, in your case, I don't see any such concerns. Even now, when this challenge has first been set in front of you, you've demonstrated incredible patience and care with each and every one of these drawings. You've shown a strong willingness to dig deep into the structural and proportional elements of every last little piece, never skipping any steps and always ensuring that enough information is present in the scene to support whatever you wish to add next. Even something as seemingly simple as your cellphone charger - specifically the section that holds the two prongs - was subdivided to a pretty crazy level of precision that I'd be impressed to see even in Lesson 7.

Now you're right that digital work should not be included in your submissions. I can absolutely understand why you decided to go that route here, but you will find that the cars we tackle in Lesson 7 are going to result in this level of complexity, and you'll still be expected to tackle them traditionally. Rather than going entirely outside of the rules, there have been some allowances for this - working with ballpoint being the biggest. Ballpoint allows you to make fainter lines relatively easily, which helps quite a bit when it comes to managing so many structural lines, so I strongly recommend that you take advantage of that. It was also an option here, of course.

All that said, looking at the depth of subdivision in this (digital) dispenser only reinforces the care and patience with which you tackle each of these constructions, and I honestly have no doubt that you absolutely have what it takes to have done this traditionally (even on a standard A4 page) - though again, I do understand why you chose not to.

Now for the most part I've been gushing over your work because it is extremely well done. I can however offer an alternative approach to the construction of your cup's handle at the end there, so fortunately I can do my job ever so slightly before marking this lesson as complete. Here's a demo I produced a while back.

The main distinction in the approach is that the handle in yours was built up gradually, piece by piece, but it wasn't until near the end that the actual handle structure was added. Prior to that point, there wasn't really anything feasible there with which one could hold up the cup. So in a sense, you were spending all that time on building the scaffolding that would support the handle, but the handle itself didn't come in until the very end.

In my approach, I focused more on starting with a simplified version of the handle, and gradually refining from there. So at any point in the construction, there exists both a cup and a handle, and gradually they both get more complex as we push forwards. I find this to be preferable because we can get a good overall view of the whole object from very early on - this allows us to get a better sense of how the different pieces fit together from the start, rather than working a bunch and "discovering" that result at the end.

Anyway! As I've said, your work here is fantastic. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 25 wheel challenge, which is a prerequisite for lesson 7.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
10:27 AM, Thursday November 4th 2021

Thank you so much Uncomfortable, I'm very glad to hear this. I'll do my best without using digital media on Lesson 7.

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