Dragoniel in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants (version 3)"
2015-11-29 21:03
Concerns:
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The amount of sheets. I am constantly submitting more than is required for homework. If this is getting too annoying, please let me know, I'll stop doing that in the future;
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I haven't really focused as much on the details of the plants themselves as I did on what new thing could a different plant teach me. I still tried to observe my references in detail, but...
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I did not generally copy reference plants as a whole. Instead, I tried to pick up nuances specific to that plant (specific leaf curvature, generic arrangement, texture and such) and transfer it to my own version of the plant. I am not entirely sure if this behavior is correct;
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I tried to avoid marking contours artificially, but I think I happened to choose plants with little surface detail, which didn't really allow me to play with it. Or perhaps I missed those details? I am aware that my curve markings are spaced too evenly and too mechanically, especially on the first few plants. I try to keep that in mind;
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Quality of photos. I should get myself a scanner already. I hope it's not too terrible as it is right now.
I feel that I learned a lot from this lesson and I'm very curious to hear from you what did I miss and where should I aim to improve the most.
Oh, one question - I am practicing ellipses (and lines and boxes, and cylinders) daily, but while I feel I made a marked improvement in that department, I recently realized that my circles are terrible. Drawing an ellipse is relatively easy (well, at least possible), while drawing a perfect circle is damn near impossible. Is that... normal? Should I focus on that until I can draw a good circle or is it something that's not really important? Well, I am practicing that now, but... It's just bloody ellipses with a very large degree...
Anyway, thank you for your time! Your critique and direction means a great deal at this stage.
EDIT: Ah, crap. I just realized I missed one part of the homework - "2 filled pages of lay-ins". There are a few pages where I studied/practiced the plants before doing detailed final versions, I think that might count (i.e. pages 95 and 2015-11-25)? Let me know if not.
Dragoniel in the post "During December, critiques will be limited to Patreon supporters (again). Free critiques will resume in January"
2015-11-26 10:30
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Dragoniel in the post "With the start of a new year, comes the reopening of critiques and a bunch of updates to the website!"
2016-01-02 22:26
Great additions, you're amazing.
I especially welcome the addition of boxes rotation exercise. Right about the time I found myself wondering how to do it when I went through the lessons originally and I noticed there were other people complaining that they can't do it at that point. Rotating the box feels like it should be very easy, but for some reason I found it maddeningly not so, to draw correctly as imagined. Drawing a random box is simple. Drawing it at a certain exact position is apparently not so simple for beginners. I spent a lot of time figuring out that one. These exercises should definitely help.