Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
5:14 PM, Thursday June 11th 2020
Had a hard time on textures, but I got through it.
Hello!
Arrows - I would suggest adding line weight to the lines that are closer to the viewer when it is turning. This helps specify what the arrow is doing. Also, making your arrow more wide gradually will make it look more realistic. If this is hard, ghost your lines and draw them in segments. I also wouldn't overlap them too much.
Organic Forms - Quite a few of your ellipses are tilted, so watch out for that. And make sure you are changing the degree of your ellipses! Imagine these forms turning in space, and if that is difficult, then just start changing the degrees of your ellipses and see how that affects how the form appears.
Textures - Congrats on completing all those texture studies! For the sausages, you should consider the sausage form more and make sure your texture appears to be wrapping around the sausage. I think the bamboo floor is pretty good, but the tiles should be following the contour ellipses of the sausage more, some of them look very straight, even though they are on a curved surface. Same with your rope, the braids of the rope are straight even though they are adhering to a curved surface. I think with the barrel and waffle you did a pretty good job with this. I also encourage you to think more of your textures' silhouette. I can see you did this for icecream, but not for corn or the rope, both of which you would see the individual knots/kernels at the edges of the sausage.
Construction - Form intersection looks great! I think you missed a couple cast shadows in the last organic intersection. Make sure your forms don't taper, they should have a consistent width. I think you should focus more on wrapping your forms around eachother, following the contour curves. Some of your forms don't quite look like they are resting on each other because of this. This goes for cast shadows as well. Also don't be afraid to draw forms that wrap behind another one, so that it is out of view. You can see this in the Lesson example.
Keep practicing contour ellipses and organic intersections especially, but all of these exercises can be revisited during warm-ups.
I hope you found this helpful! Good luck!
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Lesson 3
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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