Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
6:46 AM, Monday September 21st 2020
Woo this was a fun one. The texture analysis was pretty hard, but the dissections helped with studying textures.
Your arrows are okay. Some lines are a bit wobbly, but most of them aren't. Be always aware of the perspective, and how the further point should be smaller.
The Ellipse countours are almost great. You could work on your actual ellipse drawing and also get more variation on the degree of the ellipses. To get it a bit more smooth you can add that to your warmups.
You contour line sausages look a bit square. I think that's because you're not really confident with your ellipses yet.
Also the degree variation is lacking.
Texture studies are really nice.
The dissections could be a little bit more implicit, working more with the light/shadow variations. But you achieved what the exercise asked for.
On the Form Intersections I think you didn't really get the idea. It's extermely hard, so I understand you.
On the bright side, your forms do look like they belong to the same area! There's no huge variation in perspective and that's the main goal of the exercise.
But on the other side, you didn't really get the intersections. You highlighted where the edges meet, but not the actual shape that is the intersection.
It is hard to understand, as stated in the exercise itself. But you can try to read it again just to see if it really "clicks" with you.
The organic intersection is very well done
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Great Job! Try to add some arrows and sausages to your warmups, since they'll be very helpful on lesson 3.
Thank you so much! I'll be sure to look over the form intersection exercise again and try to study implicit textures more. Thank you for the help!
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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