Hi Kathryn- you are off to a good start! There are a couple of areas to revisit. The vertical cylinder on the left and the top horizontal cylinder are pretty close in tone and there are a good range of tones. The cylinder on the right and bottom horizontal are much darker and they needn’t be. I would lighten them to match the first two I mentioned. You do not need the reflected highlights on the cylinders. In the future when you do need reflected highlights make sure you are consistent as two of the cylinders have a reflected highlight and two do not. The last thing to note is the toning at the overlaps. For example, the top horizontal cylinder would not have dark toning on both sides of the vertical cylinder. That dark toning on the horizontal cylinder is the shadow cast by the vertical cylinder so there would only be dark toning on the side furthest from the light source. Having the dark shadow on both sides makes it appear that the cylinders are cut out and the pieces are nestled into them rather than laying on top of each other. The shadow toning should also curve instead of being straight since both vertical and horizontal pieces are cylinders. You can take pencils, chopsticks, etc to set up a model. Once you light correctly you have a great reference! A couple of minor changes and you will have it!
Much better Kathryn! It is now apparent that these are elongated cylinders laying atop of each other where they cross. You did the curved shadow correctly. Because the subject that has a shadow on it is a cylinder the shadow has to be curved rather than straight up and down. Great job!
Hi Kathryn- you are off to a good start! There are a couple of areas to revisit. The vertical cylinder on the left and the top horizontal cylinder are pretty close in tone and there are a good range of tones. The cylinder on the right and bottom horizontal are much darker and they needn’t be. I would lighten them to match the first two I mentioned. You do not need the reflected highlights on the cylinders. In the future when you do need reflected highlights make sure you are consistent as two of the cylinders have a reflected highlight and two do not. The last thing to note is the toning at the overlaps. For example, the top horizontal cylinder would not have dark toning on both sides of the vertical cylinder. That dark toning on the horizontal cylinder is the shadow cast by the vertical cylinder so there would only be dark toning on the side furthest from the light source. Having the dark shadow on both sides makes it appear that the cylinders are cut out and the pieces are nestled into them rather than laying on top of each other. The shadow toning should also curve instead of being straight since both vertical and horizontal pieces are cylinders. You can take pencils, chopsticks, etc to set up a model. Once you light correctly you have a great reference! A couple of minor changes and you will have it!
I worked on it a bit. Most of it I understood and I think it improved the drawing. I’m not quite sure I understand how to curve the shadow toning.
Much better Kathryn! It is now apparent that these are elongated cylinders laying atop of each other where they cross. You did the curved shadow correctly. Because the subject that has a shadow on it is a cylinder the shadow has to be curved rather than straight up and down. Great job!
Very nice, Kathryn!!!