Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

1:29 PM, Thursday August 19th 2021

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Wasn't able to get any critiques the last time I submitted it so I thought I should submit it again :)

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4:01 PM, Friday August 20th 2021

organic arrows:

yes, they look good and consistent according to the laws of perspective, the flow is just a little bit off (but that will come with practice). the shading in some places is inconsistent, you know the spaces between shading sticks are big and different.

organic forms (ellipses): to me they look nice, just there are too many ellipses, which i noticed is not good, 3-4 (sometimes 5 if the sausage is long) ellipses are enough. also, seems like you aren't drawing the ellipses from the arm judging that they look wobbly. i recommend making "tables of ellipses" exercise (lesson 1) as a warm up.

organic forms (lines): here the sausages look well, again i recommend sticking to few counter lines on the sausage/

texture (studies): here you did excellent. i can't say any critique tbh.

texture (organic forms): they also look very good. you sticked to the rule that on the outer spaces of sausage the texture should get smaller and smaller.

intersections: man, i suck at them, so i can't give proper critique, but the forms themsevles look solid.

organic intersections: look very nice to me, maybe try to add more casted shades.

Next Steps:

well, relax and go to the lesson 3!

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5:40 PM, Friday August 20th 2021

Oh wow, thanks a lot!

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