This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
1 users agree
4:16 PM, Saturday September 24th 2022
Hi! Good job on your Lesson 3 homework.
I will take care of reviewing it and giving you directions.
Arrows: These look pretty good. The depth, fold and line weight application look correct.
No major errors here.
Branches: Your branches look generally solid. The stroke doesn't look broken which helps everything look smooth.
The ellipses are well aligned to their axis. Plus I notice that they don't change degree with respect to their position.
In other words, your ellipses should look fatter or thinner according to their orientation to the viewer.
In the first step of the exercise instructions you can read about this, the image there also shows it: https://drawabox.com/lesson/3/2/exercisebranches
Leaves: I like how the leaves look quite organic. The folds are fluid and the details adhere well to the overall construction.
The way you used shadows to distinguish the planes also looks adequate.
Plant drawings: It's nice that all the drawings look pretty clean. All the objects seem to follow their flow lines and the overall construction is good.
I see that in some cases you drew your ellipses with a single stroke.
Throughout Drawabox, you are asked to draw over your ellipses once or twice to build up accuracy.
On the Aloe Vera plant, it would have been best not to trim the leaves where they touch the pot.
When working with constructive drawing, you want everything to look very structured and solid. It would have been more appropriate to draw them complete as in the other plants, even if they are beyond the pot.
Conclusion: Overall, it looks like you followed the method as well as possible.
I will leave no homework and mark your lesson as complete!
This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete. In order for the student to receive their completion badge, this critique will need 2 agreements from other members of the community.
4:06 AM, Wednesday September 28th 2022
thank you~
The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something I've used myself. If you're interested, here is a full list.
The Art of Brom
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.