Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
11:50 AM, Monday September 21st 2020
Any feedback is appreciated.
Your arrows are awesome, I love the even spacing of the hatched shadows. You just need to be aware of which side is front or back, cause some of your arrows are getting smaller towards the front. (An example is the bottom left arrow)
The leaves are nice and fluid
Branches are too uniform and straight. The idea is to get a little more variation both in depth and wiggle. Your ellipses' degrees should vary more. You also didn't try the "knots" and ramifications, which is a nice exercise.
For the plants, most of your submission is the demos. They are very well done, but I wish I could see how you're tackling your own choices of plants.
I really like your mushroom and flower, but wanted to see some more variation in plant styles, like something with branch ramification, or some fruits or even a different cactus.
Next Steps:
You provided what the exercises asked for!
Add some branch exercises to your warmups and maybe practice some different plants, just to learn a bit more and expand your mental library of references.
Good job!
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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