raincole in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2017-06-14 00:24
Okay, I tried again.
I've noticed that I had trouble drawing some common patterns. For example, this kind of slightly folded limbs. Where does one blob stop and where does next one start? How to draw their connected cross section? And this "curved into page" ears. I know ears are similar to leaves from lesson 2, but they're not as thin as a leaf and I don't know how to express the thickness.
raincole in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"
2017-06-09 00:54
Hi Uncomfortable, here is my lesson 5.
raincole in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"
2017-05-19 13:27
Okay, here are my 4 extra pages!
raincole in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"
2017-05-17 16:16
Hi Uncomfortable, here is my lesson 4 exercise.
I still struggle to understand how light and textures work. I can't even draw them properly in 2D, and in 3D things get worse. sometimes I think I'm doing okay, like in the crab example. But other times my texture seems to completely flatten out the surface underneath it, even I tried to draw them along the contour lines, like in the ant example(upper part of the last page).
Another question: should I draw from my shoulder even for thin stuff like insect legs? I tried my best to do it but often left uneven width. (I know I tend to draw them too thin. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention to the photos but drew from my imagination...)
raincole in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2017-05-09 03:27
I tried again with simpler forms. Here are my two pages.
I got one more question: how would you draw the forms that are curved inward to(or outward from) the paper, without making it look flat? For example these two.
raincole in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2017-05-07 18:00
Here is my two more pages. Admittedly, I was still struggling to figure out how the edges of leaves warp around 3D space...
raincole in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2017-05-04 15:11
Hey Uncomfortable, here is my lesson 3 practice. It took me a little while.
And I have a question about contour lines. Usually there are two directions in which I can draw contour lines, "latitude" and "longitude"(Sorry don't know their official names, but I'm sure you understand what I'm saying). Should I draw them in both directions, one of them, or only follow the texture's tendency? Sometimes I feel the contour lines occupying the place where the texture should be, and I don't know how to draw texture without intermingling them.
raincole in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2017-04-09 04:17
Thank for your feedback! Here is my extra lesson 2 homework.
I know my textures are still not good. I swear I tried to avoid randomness while I was drawing them; however, I often drew some unnecessary lines on one side by accident, and then to balance them out I drew even more bad lines on the other side, resulting in scribbly textures.
Would you recommend me to do texture challenge next? Or there are more basic techniques for texture drawing that I can practice?
raincole in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2017-04-06 14:22
Hello Uncomfortable, here is my lesson 2 homework. I got some little questions while drawing them:
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Should I apply the drawing technic from lesson 1(ghost line and drawing from shoulder), even when Im drawing pretty detailed stuffs like texture?
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Any further tip about controlling line weight? Every time I tried to draw light lines, I ended up with unstable or segmented lines, leading me to redraw it and get sketchy.
Thanks!
raincole in the post "250 Cylinder Challenge"
2017-04-03 04:15
Thank for your feedback! Maybe I was too eager to go back to lesson 2-3 so I tried to finish this one faster than I should've. I'll pay more attention to individual lines next time.
raincole in the post "250 Cylinder Challenge"
2017-04-01 15:57
I had a pretty hard time trying to draw cylinders in part 3 of lesson 2, so I did this one first. Here is my 250 cylinders. Thanks.
raincole in the post "250 Box Challenge"
2017-03-25 09:07
http://imgur.com/a/ZWqvW Hello Uncomfortable, here is my 250 box challenge. I feel some of(most of?) my lines are curving or wobbly, even after I "ghosted" several times before drawing them. Does it mean I draw too fast? Should I slow down a little, or ghost more, or just keep practicing?
raincole in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"
2017-07-26 17:13
Hi, Uncomfortable, here is my lesson 6. Life(tm) caught me recently and it looks like I almost forgot how to draw a box. I drew a lot of them before I tried to take lesson 6 tho.
Besides other issues, I noticed that I have trouble capturing curvy 3D shapes like this handle. My brain explodes while trying to imagine it in 3D space. Same with the piggy example where every line is curved and every corner is rounded. Any tips on this?