Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

10:47 PM, Tuesday June 1st 2021

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I'm not feeling the best about my plant constructions, but hopefully that's just me. Any and all feedback is appreciated! If you would like for me to provide any of the reference images I used for the construction pages, please let me know and I will provide them; I have all of them saved on my computer.

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11:35 AM, Thursday June 17th 2021

Hi there! Overall you're doing a good job, though there are a few things that are important you keep in mind:

Arrows are confident and have a good sense of depth. Only thing with them is that the space between folds doesn't get bigger and bigger as they come towards the viewer, so keep it in mind in future attempts. On the shading I can see you're rushing a little bit as well, make sure you take as much time as you need with each line.

On leaves you're doing a p good job overall; they're confident and clean. The only thing with them is that you are sometimes using substractive construction. Make sure you go additive always you can. Lastly when tackling textures make sure you always get reference and do it as explained in lesson 2 texture section. Give it a reread if you don't remember it well.

Branches are good, though they have 2 issues. First is one that repeats throughout all of your images; you aren't drawing through ellipses 2 times this is super important so make sure you do it from now on. Any ellipse you draw in this course has to be drawn through 2 times.

The branches have visible tails as well, so I recommend you to start your lines way back on the previous line you drew, kind of a superimposed line, like the ones on lesson 1. This way your lines will never fray at the start.

Now into your plant drawings, I'll mention the issues I've found:

-Lines are overall a little bit sketchy. Make sure that even if you miss a line that you don't try to correct it. Every line you draw as well must be ghosted and drawn with your shoulder.

-Sometimes you don't draw intersections between forms. This will become much important in lessons from now on, so make sure you always draw intersections between every form you draw. All forms must be connected. The main one in which you don't do it is the blooming cactus. If you check uncomfortable's demo you'll see he has drawn intersections between forms.

-Last thing is that your leaves are a bit rushed at times. Make sure you put with every petal and leaf as much as care as you did on the leaves exercises. And make sure you take the same approach with them too.

Other than that good job! I Can see you're clearly breaking the forms into parts to approach them with simple construction, that you aren't afraid of drawing big, and that mostly you aren't afraid of working with confident lines, so good job! I think you're ready for lesson 4 so I'll mark this as complete. Make sure you pay attention to the points I mentioned previously on the critique as they're very important. Good luck and keep it up!

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Lesson 4

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5:38 PM, Thursday June 17th 2021

Thank you very much for all the feedback. I was honestly fairly worried about how a lot of my exercises were coming out, so I'm glad to hear that I was at least on the right track. I didn't fully realize how many troublesome habits I had and will take the steps to work on them as I continue, especially when it comes to intersections and the quality of my lines.

Your input is highly appreciated!

2:14 PM, Friday June 18th 2021

no worries, good luck!

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