11:24 PM, Tuesday February 28th 2023
Hello PKFreeze, thank you for getting back to me with your revisions.
Your branches are looking much better and much more solid as you make use of the construction method, although you have some small wobbles so don't forget to always make use of the ghosting method and to execute your lines with confidence.
For your leaves they often feel stiff and awkward, this is caused by a couple different issues, one of them is the fact that your flow line often has signs of wobble and small kinks present in it, this lack of confidence hurts the initial construction and it also shows through in your edge detail, where you're often zigzagging it which goes against the third principle of Mark-making introduced in Lesson 1. Additionally you'll want to approach this step of construction additively whenever possible, avoid cutting back into what you've drawn as much as possible as this can make us focus on the shapes we draw too much, instead of the 3D edges in a tridimensional space that they represent.
You often add your edge detail with a thicker lineweight than your original construction, many times doing several passes which leaves patches of dark, unconfident lineweight on top of your leaves, this flattens and stiffens them.
Lastly another problem you face is that you're not making use of the complex leaf construction method, which leaves your construction vague and not specific, which hurts it's overall solidity because even though complex leaf constructions have individual arms they still function as a single entity and will be influenced by the "main" flow line.
The change in size and following the methods a bit more closely has definitely hugely influences the quality of your work and elevated it by quite a bit.
Unfortunately it seems that my point on how you're not drawing through your forms wasn't addressed, as you're still not drawing through most of your forms, especially your leaf structures which flattens your work. Remember that forms don't stop existing when they become obscured by other forms and that our purpose when approaching these exercises is not to make pretty drawings, it's to develop our sense of spatial reasoning and for this to be possible we need to understand how each form in our construction exists, and the only way we can do that is by fully drawing it in our page.
Your work is definitely looking much better, but considering that two major points, the leaf construction method, and drawing through your forms aren't being approached correctly I'll be asking you for some more revisions.
Next Steps:
1 page of leaves.
1 plant construction page.