_Raptor_Jesus in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-29 10:03
Hi there :)
First of all, thanks for your quick feedback. Maybe all your remarks don't click to me right now but i'm sure it will eventually, like when you just have the genuine "aaaah". I do know my ellipses (thus contour lines) are stiffy, I feel like i'm mixing up between focusing on using my shoulder (then being less accurate) and rushing. You are right about ghosting, I think I do it only one ghosting movement per ellpse, I should do more. But, I still have trouble knowing how to juggle with drawing with the shoulder and the wrist. I think I understood the theoritical aspect (shoulder for fine marks and wrist for details because of micro management of brain) but I lose confidence while executing with shoulder. Should I pursue with this or just not think too much about it ?
I agree with the fact I didn't tackle well the organic exercise, so here is the new exercise done. I watched the video and it was indeed easier to do and I understood where I failed. Even tho I had read the lesson before doing the first attempt, it didn't appear as clear as the video because I had no visual guide of how to do it. Yes you included pictures but it's different. So it was easier to do it with the video.
Which "pisses" me off because I'm not able to "invent" and create forms saging and slumping around one another by myself (or just intersecting with each other, like one in front of the other and thus masking some part of a particular sausage). I mean, now it looks better and I think I kinda managed to make the viewer understand how they interact with each other. But it's only because I saw HOW YOU did it in the video and because I had a model at some point. It's basically mimicking so it bugs me. I dunno If i really understood the concept or if I'm just good at reproducing what I see .. You know what I mean ? And i think it's pretty much the case with every exercise, I have less problem reproducing something rather than getting it out of my mind and my own representation of it, so it's kinda a wall to creativity ... Dunno if i'm clear enough and if you have an answer regarding this.
Anyway, thanks a lot !
https://imgur.com/a/Z0LRPsF (last picture of the album)
_Raptor_Jesus in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-28 21:29
Hi uncomfortable :)
I had a lot of personal things to deal with (like finishing my master degree in engineering) so I took a lot of time to cover the lesson 2. But here it is :)
I struggled a looooot with the intersections and organic intersections, not really satisfied with the end work :(
But i'm very proud of my aligator texture. Thanks for the critique !
_Raptor_Jesus in the post "250 Box Challenge"
2018-05-23 20:49
Thanks for the feedback, yes there's definitively space to improve with perspective and vanishing point convergence. I'm also pretty satisfied with my confidence with which I draw my lines. But for sure, there's a huge gap comparing with my marks when I draw ellipses.
And yes I know I have to learn a looooot with shading and shadow, i'm doing it pretty randomly without knowing exactly why I should emphasis there or there. But i trust the clarity of your explanations in lessons 2 and so on.
So regarding the drawings, one is supposed to represent to 2 columns of fire crossing with each other. At some point, I fucked up the "texture" because it doesn't look like too much to fire. And i don't know how to accentuate to make the viewer understands that one is passing above the other. I tried to accentuate the contour on the line which is normally above but it's not very explicit.
Regarding the flowers, one is particulary flat and doesn't present much volume and shape. I know why, the marks are not very accurate and it's a bit messy overall.
I know there's a huuuuge difference of quality drawing between this one + the 4 other ones and the blooming flowers on the branch and ( the sakura flowers).
And i know why there's such a difference, it's because I actually copied the sakura flowers (it was an upload of someone from reddit) and I used visual references from google to draw all the others. So I tremendously lack the skill of analysis and extract/abstract the content and essence of the picture. I hope i'll develop it through the dissections exercices.
Thanks for the review anyway :)
_Raptor_Jesus in the post "250 Box Challenge"
2018-05-23 19:24
Hey :) After a while (i've been busy with my studies atm) i've finally completed the 250 box challenge. It's been long and maybe not the most fun thing to do, but i've made it.
On the other hand, i've been drawing a few flowers because I felt i wanted to change and do something than boxes, can I also add a imgur link so that you give me a quick feedback about the perspective/volume of the drawings ?
Thank you very much :)
_Raptor_Jesus in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-29 17:58
Alright, thanks for your answer. I think i grasp your idea and explanations. To follow your analogy, I'd say I'm not trying to compose sonnets but just to write MY words from letters you used. For example, writing dog if you give me letters d,o,g while you wrote God. It's more like appropriating myself the basics and use it on my own ways.
But you're totally right,I'll focus more on mimicking and understanding and not creative something new from understanding. I think it's a huge leap I'm trying to overtake too soon.
Cheers :)