shounenakuma in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"
2015-07-01 18:30
yeargh, i thought insects would be easier than plants. :) that was hard
Lesson 4, Lay-Ins: http://imgur.com/a/6yQBH
Lesson 4, Insect Studies: http://imgur.com/a/3rpIj
sorry i took so long, my family went camping and then i got super sick.
i think i mess some of them up after i establish the main forms and try to start deforming them with subforms. especially when some components don't follow the main form perfectly (like something that wraps around, but not according to the contour).
i need to do some texture studies like you suggested to other people lol :p draw cubes and make them hairy, scaly, or whatever. i tried it once it was pretty fun and i learned stuff.
anyway thanks again for looking at my work and helping me! i really appreciate all the lessons so far.
shounenakuma in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-06-09 20:23
it was not sarcasm :( i really like them. i like how you hinted at more than are there.
shounenakuma in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-06-09 17:43
i love the thorns on page 6 on the cylinder close-up. that is so cool.
shounenakuma in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-06-08 18:09
thanks for the great advice, i see what you mean now about page 2. lol i wasn't even thinking about the bottoms of them, i was so focused on the tops. just because i'm not looking at something doesn't mean it's not there XD It seems so obvious now that you say it :sweatdrop:
i wanted to say thanks again for making these, they are hard but i feel like i'm learning so much. and sorry for my late reply, i had no internet all weekend :(
shounenakuma in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-06-05 17:55
well, here is my lesson 3
lay-ins: http://imgur.com/a/RwNSS
plant studies: http://imgur.com/a/wHXkj
this lesson was hard.. i struggled a lot with leafs and stuff, i guess i need more practice playing with ribbons. i also struggled making the roots come forward, especially when paradoxically they shrunk in size when they came closer to the camera and it kind of clashes with trying to make the ellipses more circular. i also think i was happier with some of the structures before i tried to add detail i don't really know how to texture and think i fell back on hasty hatching a bit too often instead.
i was really really unhappy with my first attempt at the buttress roots so i tried again at the end focusing more on the roots instead of the tree.
shounenakuma in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"
2015-07-01 19:27
cool thanks a lot! on some of my reference images i had no drop shadows so was guessing, but even when i am guessing i could be more careful in designing them. they're not just an afterthought huh, they help define the forms and the relation to the ground.
i got a lot of itchies doing this! i didn't do any spiders because honestly i couldn't stop squirming just looking at them XD