LaurieComicDream

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    5:56 PM, Monday May 25th 2020

    Thanks a lot I actually never thought about light source so that must be the problem.

    I'll keep that in mind from now on!

    5:09 PM, Monday May 25th 2020

    Thanks a lot for your critique Uncomfortable.

    I applied your tips here: https://imgur.com/a/P3y6VjA

    I followed the moose's head demo and tried on my own on a girafe head. I did my best to focus on construction and line weight. Though I'm not sure it turned out OK. Also sorry forgot to save the girafe reference.

    Also tried sausages again and as you said I'm having difficulty wrapping them around each other. I'm having difficulty guessing how it wraps in the back of the sausage it sits on. Not sure if that makes sense. Also tried to apply cast shadows better but I believe I still need to improve at them.

    Anyway please tell me if it's better.

    Thanks a lot and have a good day!

    7:31 AM, Monday May 11th 2020

    Thank you for this useful critique and your support!

    I'll keep an eye on my ellipses width, sausage forms and on respecting the presence of the shapes I construct on the page.

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    10:11 PM, Sunday May 10th 2020

    Nice work! Firstly your arrows are flowing nicely through 3D space, and you've got them moving in a variety of orientations. You mostly respected the perspective on them(the farther the smaller), keep this principle in mind while drawing in perspective.

    Moving onto your organic forms with contour ellipses, you did a good job on tracing your center lines and placing your ellipses on them. Also, you understood how ellipses work in 3D space and changed their width accordingly on your sausages. Careful to keep your sausages round on the sides, don't forget they're supposed to be balls. Good work overall.

    Now your texture analyses, you've nailed exactly what you're meant to pick up with this exercise. You've done a great job of focusing on shadow shapes and largely setting lines aside. One thing to consider though: maybe you noticed the shadows that last the longest in the light are those that regroup multiple lines together, the "Y" shape. In your first and second analysis it seems like you're trying to guess where the shadows remain in the light by tracing lines at random. Usually, the forms made of a single line disappear in the light.

    Anyway, you still did a great job with them and your dissections are brilliant. Pretty solid work here.

    Moving onto your form intersections, you made your forms confidently and nicely melted them together. You'll keep improving on this exercise as you keep practicing, and it's a good start!

    Lastly, good job on your organic intersections, they look really nice. You wrapped them nicely around one another, except that one that sits straight as an arrow on your first page, on the right. And maybe the one kind off "jumping off" the form on the left as it wasn't the goal here but I bet it was fun to do.

    I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete, good job on this and good luck with lesson 3.

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    7:14 PM, Monday April 27th 2020

    Nice! Thanks for taking the time to correct my work

    5:55 PM, Monday April 27th 2020

    Like this? https://imgur.com/a/SjGVQ67 Sorry I'm really struggling with this

    8:53 PM, Sunday April 26th 2020

    I made some new branches,leaves and a construction plant based on your critique, here: https://imgur.com/a/pUonCM2 Regarding cast shadows and construction lines I'll be extra careful about them during lesson 4. Thanks again.

    8:15 PM, Sunday April 26th 2020

    Thank you for your critique!! I'll work on improving myself

    12:56 PM, Wednesday April 15th 2020

    Thanks a lot !

    2:55 PM, Tuesday April 14th 2020

    Thanks a lot for this useful critique!

    Here's an extra page of the form intersections exercice as you requested, thanks for your help

    Form intersections

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