koolestani

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koolestani's Sketchbook

  • Sharing the Knowledge
  • Victorious
  • High Roller
  • Technician
  • Geometric Guerilla
  • Tamer of Beasts
  • The Fearless
  • Giver of Life
  • Dimensional Dominator
  • The Relentless
  • The Relentless
  • Basics Brawler
    1:24 PM, Wednesday December 6th 2023

    Thank you for the detailed critique.

    I've made some attempts at improving these drawings and shared them here, I hope this is more in line with what's expected out of the lesson.

    The way you broke down concepts and explained things made it easier to grasp, but I think, I'm still not quite where the lesson wants me to be.

    I mostly just ended up drawing ellipses to indicate the contact of the additional mass that lays over the basic sausage form for all the legs. My brain just sees elliptical contours as the boundary of the connective surface between the sausage form and the form added above it. Is that correct?

    Also I was surprised to see how little space there was on the page to add little clumps of mass over the legs of some of these creatures even when I dedicated the whole page to just one creature. Is that normal?

    I can see that this is basically an excercise of geometric intersections.

    So when the appendage in the claw of the scorpion intersects with the base form of the claw which is a sphere the boundary of the intersection follows the curvature of the sphere (wraps around its surface).

    On the page with two beetles drawn on it, the beetle on the top, label A, here I visualize the form with the antennae attaches to its head which is a sphere and the result is a boundary that looks like its wearing a VR headseat. This is what seemed right to me. What do you think about it?

    Likewise, in the ten lined june bug, label A, I see the intersection of the elongated form with its spherical head like that of a ducks bill with it face.

    In the crab with tons of annotation, I think I have got the right idea of how the lumps of mass connect to the spherical base form of its claws, I am still not sure about what I could have done better with the connective lump of mass hatched and labelled B, I don't see any hidden line that I could have added to improve upon the illusion of it wrapping around in 3D space and connecting the spheres on either sides of it.

    Label C and D, I think they now look like lumps that wrap around their base form of an ellipsoid.

    On the green metallic beetle, labels A, B and E, again I could only imagine the boundaries of the intersection of forms added over the base form as elliptical contours. With E being just a tiny sliver / slice of a larger sphere.

    C and D also seemed to sit on the base form in a way that would cause the geometric intersection to look like an ellipse.

    3:45 PM, Thursday November 30th 2023

    Sorry for the delay, I've added the new pages in the original link.

    11:56 PM, Wednesday November 1st 2023

    I did, actually I'd like to give some unsolicited advise/feedback that I believe would improve the site design.

    If this isn't the right place to share it, please let me know.

    The indentation for replies takes up a lot of space. I think it's not required since every reply nests in further no matter the nesting level of the comment to which the reply was made. Eventually you are bound to run out of the horizontal space. Right now it cannot display your full username on the screen, it's just UNCOMFRTA (see what I did here XD)

    Hiding everything beyond the third reply behind a VIEW MORE COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD button is something that should be reviewed.

    If a sizeable "You have X unread notifcations" banner could appear somewhere, maybe the center or the bottom of the screen, that could be a welcome addition as well. The current system of having a dot display over the human symbol is very subtle, and doesn't grab attention unless you deliberately look at it. No color contrast between the two makes it even more invisible.

    I like the rounded rectangles and the bounding box around each reply. It's very easy to follow visually and pleasing to look at.

    8:07 PM, Wednesday November 1st 2023

    Thank you for the critique and bearing with me!

    PS

    I thought I didn't receive any reply to that last message till now, then I saw the "Giver of Life" text under my avatar, which made me look around to find out what happened, turns out the reply was hidden behind a "VIEW MORE COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD" button.

    2:48 PM, Saturday October 28th 2023

    Link to revisions

    https://imgur.com/a/cN0u9Bl

    4:26 PM, Wednesday October 25th 2023

    Link to revisions

    https://imgur.com/a/GwiylIV

    2:06 PM, Monday October 9th 2023

    Thank you

    1:22 AM, Thursday September 21st 2023

    Thank you, that insight about the relationship between each line in a set is very helpful.

    10:22 AM, Monday September 4th 2023

    Here is the revised homework

    I did 2 pages of Ellipses in Funnels because the first page didn't come out very well, so I chalked it up as a warm up page and did another.

    11:13 PM, Thursday August 31st 2023

    Thanks for the quick reply. I'll get to the revisions, although I didn't use a pencil/sketch out the organic boxes or any other exercise.

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