Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
5:09 PM, Monday November 21st 2022
Reference Images I used: https://imgur.com/a/fnYJ0sZ
Reference Images I used: https://imgur.com/a/fnYJ0sZ
Hello!
I will start correcting your lesson:
Arrows:
These are fine; there is a clear sense of depth. The way they fold in space is also accurate.
Still, I would like you to pay more attention to the shadow lines inside the arrows. You should do them more meditatively, to avoid them going off the edges or being overused. They have become a bit erratic.
Branches:
Excellent. The lines are almost not out of place, and will get better with practice. Ellipses are well aligned and change degree with respect to their position correctly.
Branches that split in two are also well done, you followed each step well.
Leaves:
These fold back on themselves correctly. How you have added the detail on the bases, constructively, is also appropriate.
Both here and in the other plant drawings, the way you draw their interior detail could be improved.
Things like the "veins" inside the leaves are not to be worked in as mere lines.
What we should project from these are only their cast shadows.
Thus, we do not destroy the three-dimensionality of our drawing by adding details or empty lines.
This diagram may help.
Plants:
Leaves, branches are as well applied as in the previous exercises.
There is always a tendency to overuse them. In your case, the shadows of the spheres inside that cactus are so large that they give unnecessary contrast.
If the light comes from the left, all the shadows will go to the right. Of course there are exceptions to this, but let's work this way for now so as not to complicate things at the beginning.
. I have nothing more to mention. Above all you have understood the basics of the lesson. The mistakes mentioned can be worked on as you go along.
Move on to the next lesson whenever you want!
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