RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-19 23:13
You'd asked me to do three more drawings, here they are. Sorry it took so long - changed jobs this week, a bit overlap between them, so I was pretty busy. Some days I only had 15-20 minutes to give to drawing, so on those days I just did lesson 1-2 exercises. Should be able to start giving an hour/day again now that I'm back down to one job!
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-13 01:59
Got it. Thanks! I'll be back in a few days with more bugs!
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-13 00:01
OK, that's makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the clarification.
One more question though (sorry!): "prepare then execute a single mark," except for ellipses which I'm meant to draw through 2-3 times, correct?
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-12 23:29
I'll definitely try my best to do that on the next three. In the meantime, I've re-photographed most of these with a better camera and uploaded them here: http://imgur.com/a/gvoHY
Do you mind taking a quick look at the re-photo'd ones and seeing if it still looks like two pens or if the problem looks as bad?
Just so I understand a bit better, if I'm looking at say the Ichneumon Wasp, I notice that the back leg behind the abdomen is very light compared to the abdomen itself or the rest of the leg that would be poking up and would be visible in a photo. It was the same pen, and I was trying to make a confident stroke in the initial layout, but I do see that there is less line there. Is the problem more that I'm underdoing it at first, or overdoing it with going over the lines?
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-12 21:06
Hm. I'm using the same black .6 felt tip for the whole process. I even made sure to make my initial lines darker than I was on my plant drawings because you'd mentioned a similar concern there. I wonder if it has anything to do with the way I'm photographing the drawings. I am probably going over my lines too much, but I'm not using any sort of grey pen or thinner pen or anything like that for layout.
Oh, actually I did use a much larger marker for the big sections of black on the wasp, just because there was so much there. But otherwise everything is the same .6 (the store near me doesn't sell .5!) pen from beginning to end.
I'll try to make my initial marks darker and do less going over the other lines on my three re-dos, but I must admit I'm just a bit confused by this.
edit: I looked at the gallery, and yes, that totally looks grey. It's not, though. I'm going to try to take some better quality photos of some of these and re-upload them.
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-11 15:55
Here's homework four. Thanks again!
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-03 23:12
Thank you for the feedback! I see all of your points and I'll do my best to incorporate your advice into the next lesson and beyond.
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-03 16:23
Here's my lesson three homework. This definitely took more than eight hours. Thanks for the hard work!
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2016-08-24 00:57
I suppose that goes for stems as well?
RalphPZa in the post "State of the Union - September vacation, and dealing with the overwhelming number of homework submissions"
2016-08-22 21:40
Congratulations on building something so big that you're starting to struggle with how to handle it. I don't have any particular advice how to handle it - the lottery system sounds good, as does going patreon only. Enjoy your vacation!
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2016-08-22 14:10
More like this on the contour curves?
Thanks for the feedback. I did struggle with the textures. I see what you mean with the black spaces. The hatching on the copper tube was actually a deliberate choice because the shadow was pretty light on the image I used, but I see it didn't look so great. I guess making textures with pen and ink is kind of a bunch of decisions. Each little area of the page is binary - mark or no mark - in a way the pencil or paint isn't. So, I guess it will take more practice to get to the point where I make the correct decisions in the future. I will check out the 25 texture challenge although it will probably take me a long time to complete it!
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2016-08-21 14:58
Here's how I felt during the form intersections: http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/troy_whole_brain_crying.gif
In addition to feeling like that, I also KIND of felt like Jack Kirby drawing some crazy machine for the Fantastic Four.
I think I hit most of the faults from the self critique, at least in some places. Especially the textures on the dissections.
I've started the 250 box challenge and plan to complete both that and the cylinder challenge.
Thanks again!
EDIT: Oh, a quick question. I was tempted to play with the curves a bit on GIMPshop to make the white of the page a bit whiter, and the black of the ink a bit blacker. Although I'm not happy with the texture drawings, I do really like how the black pops in a scan rather than a photo. I didn't want to do that before asking if that would be distracting or make the critique more difficult or would somehow otherwise be inadvisable.
RalphPZa in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids (new 40min intro video, 3 new demos)"
2016-09-20 18:53
Yes, sometimes I did catch myself making marks without ghosting. Whenever I realized I was doing that I made sure to start ghosting again. Thanks for the feedback!