Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

8:43 PM, Thursday July 18th 2024

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11:45 AM, Saturday August 3rd 2024

Hey,

I just finished this lesson myself (still waiting to get official feedback) but from what I can see you did a great job at most things:

Arrows:

They are looking great, very flowy. I would suggest exactly what was suggested to me on the critique from the previous lesson, to experiment with a bit more dramatic foreshortening. But that's just for experimentation and expanding your spacial awareness. Other than that, they are great.

Leaves:

Just like your arrows they are looking nice and flowy. The one concern i have is that on some of the silhouette are very unclear, they look dotty, if that makes sense. However, I know that some of them have very rough edges. Try to see if you can revisit one of them and express that edge in another way that seems more clear. Good work tho!

Branches:

They are looking good. The one thing that I am unsure of is if you are really thinking about how they are turning in space or not (the ellipses). Some look very good and some look a bit off, but hey I struggled a lot on this too. For me, it was mostly that I didnt have the dexterity to do it. If this is the case for you too, then just keep practicing it will come :) otherwise try to be more intentional with your degrees of rotation.

Plants:

Honestly, most of them look great and i would have thought maybe they were done by a staff member or uncomfortable, especially those mushrooms. The only ones that stuck out to me that didn't seem too organic were the tomato plants, but that could have been from trying to stick to close to the reference like it sometimes happens to me. Other than that you did great.

Thats all from me, I hope some of it was useful. You are doing great work. Hopefully someone with more experience can add their 2 cents and also mark this as complete, like i will.

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10:39 AM, Sunday August 4th 2024
edited at 10:48 AM, Aug 4th 2024

Hi Coolrock, thank you for your feedback!

I definitely agree with you about the tomato plant drawing being stiff. Sometimes I get too caught up in trying to get the perspective right that I neglect my linework. Will keep this and your other tips in mind for the next lesson.

Thanks again and good luck with lesson 4!

edited at 10:48 AM, Aug 4th 2024
1:44 PM, Tuesday August 6th 2024

No problem! Im glad it was helpful!

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