binkhiem in the post "250 Box Challenge (#3)"
2016-01-10 05:48
Thank you very much for the fast critique :D
And thank you for the answer. Definitely need to rearrange my time and work in order to master the skill. Lesson 2 here I come !!
binkhiem in the post "250 Box Challenge (#3)"
2016-01-10 03:43
Hi /u/Uncomfortable, I did the challenge: http://imgur.com/a/m4a7s
Just some side questions before moving to lesson 2:
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How often should I re-do the exercises for lesson 1 ? After going through some articles on the Internet those exercises are mainly for warm-up purpose. However, I feel reluctant to do them because I often lose focus after those session and can hardly feel eager to sit back in the chair and continue the main course (Kind of like when exercising your body, you do too much warm-up and then feel too tired to do the main exercises). So, Can you suggest the necessary amount for that kind of warm-up exercises ?
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Hope that this question was appropriate in this post. How much time do you think people should spend on doing lesson 2, ideally ? After looking through the materials for exercises 2 I feel kinda overwhelmed and believe that more practice compared to what you suggest are needed to get the exercises be right and on-point.
Again, thank for the critique :D. Have a good day.
binkhiem in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections (version 3)"
2016-02-21 07:48
Hi /u/Uncomfortable, here is my submission for Lesson 2 homework: http://imgur.com/a/3RHO2
This lesson is real hard compared to lesson 1 really, but the result was rewarding. After going through all the exercises, I feel a lot more confident in tackling textures, expressing lightning using cross hatching and constructing forms.
I think this lesson can be considered to be the corner stone of the whole Dynamic Sketching course, but the content was too heavy. In my opinion, the intersection part should be separated into a new lesson which tackles the geometric forms.
Anyway, I am quite upset with the fact that it took me too long (>1 month) to finish the lesson, without meeting my personal expectation of the homework. Nonetheless, the fact that I learned a lot doing the exercises motivates more than ever.
For the dissections exercise: I wanted to include learning texture as well as form dissection, so I tried drawing fruits. I found fruits really suitable for the exercise as they have diverse textures as well as organic shape. But figuring how to render the texture was quite hard and exhaustive to me so I could only do draw a few fruits. There are still a lot of interesting textures left such as wooden, metal, meat, many other type of fruits, etc. so I think I will revisit this exercise again in the future.
For the intersections exercise, this exercise was very hard to me. I tried to make sense of the intersection by drawing the intersected part but it was only plausible for the boxes (later I stopped doing because it was hard). I tried making every possible combinations and found cylinders and corns intersecting each other to be very difficult. I hope that would be a simple 3D software to show how the forms intersecting.
Anyway, have a good day and thank you for the critique. :D