Mnemneme in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2016-07-16 14:05
Hi Uncomfortable, here's my lesson 2 homework.
The first page of form intersections got a little confused and isn't quite finished, but I decided to include it anyway. It is followed by the required four complete pages of intersections (although a few of those intersections are also a little wonky).
Thank you for your feedback!
Mnemneme in the post "Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2016-07-13 19:20
Hi Uncomfortable! This is actually my second time going through these exercises. I went through lesson 1 as well as the 250 box challenge in pencil earlier this week (didn't have immediate access to a felt tip pen and wasn't intending to submit for critique). After starting in on lesson 2 and looking at some of the other material I decided that having access to your critiques going forward could be very valuable, so I decided to go back and complete this lesson in the proper medium, and from the look of things the additional practice was probably necessary. Despite doing the 250 box challenge I found that I still struggled with the rotated boxes exercise, although I think it started to click somewhat after a few failed attempts (still far from perfect of course).
Please don't hold back in your critique. I'm here to learn so the more issues I am aware of the better (=. One thing that often trips me up is figuring out a good relationship between the angles of the different planes of the boxes. In some cases, particularly in the rotated boxes exercise, I find that some boxes which are intended to be cubes viewed from a close to head-on perspective come out looking rather flat. Hopefully I will gain a sense for this with more practice (or maybe some Scott Robertson).
Thank you so much for creating such an awesome website and taking the time to do these critiques. I really appreciate it.
Mnemneme in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2016-07-21 17:13
Here's my lesson 3 homework. I included a couple extra pages (I also ended up forgetting the focal point on a couple of my sketches so it evens out :p).
I feel like my fundamentals from the previous two lessons slipped a little in a couple places with some inaccurate/shaky lines and some rather inaccurate focal points. I did a few pages of exercises from those lessons in between my sketches, so hopefully that helped keep things from getting too bad.
Some subjects were definitely more difficult than others. I think where I struggled the most were cases where there were lots of little details that were sort of in the mid range between being large enough to tackle comfortably and being small enough to be treated as a texture (plants 7, 8 and 9 were probably the most difficult).
Here are the reference photos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Foxglove_(4800067222).jpg, 9, 10: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Solanum_melongena_24_08_2012_(1).JPG.
As always thank you for the lesson and critique!