thehamco in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-15 22:32
Thank you! I'll be sure to continue practicing drawing the basic 3D forms as part of my warm up.
Also, I've just now upgraded my pledge to the highest tier.
thehamco in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-15 05:26
Hi Uncomfortable,
Here are my redone Lesson 2 pages: https://imgur.com/a/fR7kUH8
I was more careful with the contour curves, being mindful and trying to "feel" the form in 3D space as I drew them.
I was also more focused while drawing out the basic forms in the intersection exercise.
I also did my best to fix the shadow issues for the organic intersection exercise.
Thanks!
thehamco in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-12 22:09
Hi Uncomfortable,
Thanks for the balanced and fair response. I did not realize that you based your tiers on one submission a month only. Your FAQ was ambiguous about this, so I decided to pledge a higher tier for your time.
The goal of being "ready" before Inktober is my personal goal, and I agree that it doesn't line up with the original intent of the event. I have noticed that I have the "perfect is the enemy of good" problem -- with everything, not just drawing. I spend too much time going through tutorials and practicing exercises, and I delay working on "finished" personal pieces because I want to make sure my skill is "good enough" before I try. It's definitely a mindset I need to get over.
You have a good point about splitting up practice into shorter chunks and taking it slowly. However, I'm pretty close to finishing the 250 box challenge as it is, so I'll submit that ASAP and then reevaluate my approach.
Overall, I'm no stranger to this kind of workload/pace. I've sustained it in the past. But I agree that I could use more balance.
thehamco in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-12 20:01
First of all, thank you so much for the detailed and thorough reply! I'm at work right now so I'll come up with a more detailed response later, but I want to address this first:
It's pretty obvious that you completed this stuff prior to pledging and submitting for critique
I can understand that you may feel frustrated because it may feel like I am trying to take advantage of your critique services by working ahead of time, and I apologize if you feel this way. That would clearly be a dick move, but I can attest that this isn't true for this homework (Lesson 2) and for the box challenge I've done so far. I'll admit, I definitely worked on Lesson 1 the day before pledging, but all my work on 250 box challenge so far and all my work on Lesson 2 was done in the past couple of days. I've literally used all of my free time to draw and cut back on sleep to make more time for drawing. Why? I made a goal for myself to participate in Inktober 2018, and part of that was to get proficient enough in fundamentals to create and post work that I am proud of.
I can empathize that doing these critiques takes a lot of your time and energy, and I appreciate that. You probably don't have a lot of students trying to complete the program at this pace, and I'm sorry if that is unfair for you.
thehamco in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-12 10:01
Hi Uncomfortable,
I know you recommend the 250 box challenge immediately after lesson 1, but I got bored after 112 boxes and finished Lesson 2... Don't worry, I promise I'll finish them. Here is my submission for Lesson 2:
The form intersections broke my mind. Do you have a method for learning how to properly visualise these? Should I learn how to use Blender and boolean some primitives together?
Here are my form intersections before I tried to interpret the intersection points, if that helps:
Also, I could have worked on simplifying the texture work in the organic dissections instead of rendering every single detail like every scale on the snake pattern. Any tips?
I'm also not sure I understood the arrow exercise. Should I have had paths in mind to design the arrows? I felt like I was just drawing random curves and trying to assign a 2D ribbon look to them.
I'm otherwise satisfied with the rest of my homework. And as you can see, I had some fun rendering some of the organic forms...
thehamco in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-09-12 09:49
Dang your organic dissection textures are amazing, IMO.
thehamco in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2018-09-18 11:10
Hi Uncomfortable,
Here is my submission for lesson 3: https://imgur.com/a/HQ8gTyo
Some notes:
I'm not sure if I did the stem exercise correctly... For the first half of the page, I followed your technique of connecting the cross-section ellipses piece-by-piece, but I ended up with a messy look. In the bottom half, I tried connecting them with one fluid continuous motion. I think it was less chicken-scratchy but a bit more wobbly.
I went a bit overboard with the rendering for the first group of mushrooms, so I included the "before" pic of only the underlying construction.
Thank you.