Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

5:26 PM, Sunday March 10th 2024

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This took way longer than I anticipated / would have liked. I took a long break during the middle of the texture analysis exercise and came back to finish the lesson 2. I know I'm no longer on the official review track, so I'm submitting this for community review.

The dissection exercise was especially challenging to me. I had to change approach between page 1 and page 2 because I was too perfectionist, I was was taking forever to finish page 1 ...

In my 250 box challenge review, I was told to draw bigger, so I tried to keep that in mind when doing the lesson 2 homework. With varying degrees of success, ah ah. For the texture homework, I did not reuse the pages from the organic intersections exercice precisely because the forms were too small.

Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks in advance

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