Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

1:46 PM, Wednesday July 5th 2023

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This lesson was a true test and I've held up as much as I can, for the last 3 months anyways, here is the fruit of my labor.

Please while critiquing I'll like advice on the arrows and organic intersections exercise and what to keep in mind for future warmups

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5:47 PM, Sunday July 9th 2023

Hi there! For warm ups right of the bat I would recommend drawing circles. It became my go to warm up exercise. Some of your circles were a bit wonky but it's nothing a little practice can't fix! Remember about first going through the motion a few times before putting down the pen and then drawing the circle a few times. And of course using that shoulder. here is the reminder of drawing from ones shoulder, very helpful stuff.

The arrows look mostly fine to me, some heads of the arrows dont quite line up with the flow of their tails but other than that you got the perspective right. I can see you tried to add line weight which is great, but remember that the "further" the tail of the arrow is the thinner line should be, because the line weight is the same through the while length it can be a bit confusing and mess with the perspective.

For the organic intersections the first page is a bit akward as some of those beans appear to be affected differently by gravity but you made improvements on the second page so that's huge!

Those are the things that seemed obvious to me, I'm still quite a novice, I'm just on lesson 4 myself. But keep up the good work, you are already showing signs of improvement and I'm very proud of you sticking with the course!

1:26 PM, Monday July 10th 2023

Thanks alot for taking the time to review my homework,

I really appreciate ????.

You didn't state the next step for me but I'm guessing it's ok for me to move on to lesson 3, right?

2:11 PM, Wednesday July 12th 2023

Hi sorry for this, it was my first time reviewing homework so I was quite clueless but I think I get it now. Keep up the good work champ!

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5:48 PM, Monday July 10th 2023

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