number_forty_seven in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"
2015-07-27 20:34
I didn't go too crazy with the shadows throughout. I tried to capture the shadows in photos which had them, but even then it was usually diffused. This lesson is not ideal to draw from life!
number_forty_seven in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-07-23 04:11
Laughably bad is not reassuring. Lol. That's okay, nothing I wasn't surprised to hear. Honesty is best! Is the technique in that example different to that of 2.3 in the lesson? The example in the link looks like you capture the vein structure of the leaf, where as 2.3 is contour lines.
number_forty_seven in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-07-22 00:03
Overall I found leaf structure to be the hardest part. It reminds me of the challenge in trying to capture cloth/drapery.
number_forty_seven in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections (version 2)"
2015-07-17 19:43
I hope this is an improvement by what you mean. Otherwise I think I'm lost :S
number_forty_seven in the post "Video: From Black and White to Colour"
2015-07-15 04:23
Being told to paint b&w gets tossed around so much that it was probably a good idea to cover it regardless. It's definitely a question I see get asked a lot when browsing. There's so many ways to go about it that I can see why.
number_forty_seven in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections (version 2)"
2015-07-14 23:49
I see now, that things get messier when they get more complicated. Ellipses were one of the hardest parts of the first lesson for me. So I hope there's some improvement on that front anyways.
number_forty_seven in the post "250 Box Challenge (#2)"
2015-07-07 17:51
I was going over the first set of boxes with a thicker marker to try and add weight but it felt like I was just trying to cover my mistakes so I stopped. The "Y" method really breaks down 3 point perspective into an easily understandable lesson.
In case this helps anyone, I remembered a useful bit of information from a book I have, Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators by Michael D. Mattesi. He briefly mentions that when drawing a cube, the perspective is false if you can see one side as a perfect square AND it's sides. It will never be a perfect square on the front unless you are looking directly at it from eye level, in which case you can't see any other sides of it.
number_forty_seven in the post "Announcement: Important news for those seeking critiques for their homework submissions during the month of August"
2015-07-30 17:25
Brace yourself for the incoming chain submissions on Sept 1st. A month is a long time to be working through the exercises.