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Albert Galilov
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5mo
added comment inProject - Simplify from Observation
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My second attempt (first one was an apple), I would like to know how I did and if I am can continue to the next lesson. Thank you for advance for the critique :)
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5mo
This is a really cool drawing. I like how you designed the shapes. It’s got a unique and interesting flow to it.
You could organize values more on your next drawing. This means simplifying the planes of the pear and deciding which planes are facing towards or away from the light source.
Heres some demos to help explain.
Keep it up. Can’t wait to see more!
Albert Galilov
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10mo
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I tried this exercise with an apple, let me know how I can improve. Not sure why but the big shadow in the middle of the apple looks like a hole instead of wrapping around the apple, how could I fix it to look correct?
Hi. the shadow on the image is more than the right half of the apple. You can see a clear dark oval shape. You should try to make the shadow a single shape.
The ambient/bounced light you have created (brighter areas in shadow) are too bright- as bright as your midtone. Remember it is still a part of the shadow- and thus should be much darker. Only slightly lighter than rest of your shadow.
Watch this video by Marco Bucci- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwLQ0cDb4cE hope its helpful.
Hi Albert, The dark areas at the top of the apple, where the form turns away from the light toward the (absent) stem, have softly graded edges (on the side away from us) and look pretty convincing! But the dark area in the upper middle has edges that are relatively sharp, suggesting some abrupt change of surface. What would happen if you softened those edges across quite a bit of the middle apple? Hope this helps, keep up the good work!
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10mo
Hey Albert! This is a good start -- I like how you are designing the shapes of the values within the apple. I think the reason the dark shadow shape looks so out of place is because values on the right side of the apple (furthest away from the light source) are about the same value as the left side of the apple (closest to the light source). This makes it seems like the apple is being lit from both sides (which we can see in the source photo that it is being lit from the left because of the bright highlight). I color picked from your drawing to show this visually, and I did a sketch of my own to show how I would design my values. Hope this helps!
