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1:20 PM, Saturday March 5th 2022

Hello there! Congrats on making it through Lesson 2!

I will be reviewing your homework today, so let's get started!

I think your arrows are looking good. You just sometimes seem to be unsure where the shadows are supposed to go. Usually we can say that they won't be on the same section. I tried showcasing this a bit here: https://imgur.com/a/wFc57cg

Aside from that you're good!

For the Organic Forms your lines are still looking good. I believe you're aware of your ellipses being wobbly and unsure yourself. If you have trouble with ellipses I recommend including the Table of Ellipses from Lesson 1 in your warm ups. They will be important in the future so I think it'd be a smart decision to polish them a bit more. For the shapes themselves your only mistake is that they tend to be elongated. Remember that we're aiming for a simple sausage form, a tube with a sphere on each end, see this: https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage.

You mentioned it but I can also see you having fun with textures :D They're good! Your sticking to cast shadows and try to avoid simple lines. I know it gets hard, especially the more you go towards the right side. In this case you can try using this method: https://i.imgur.com/M9JJfr4.png For the next time you're doing this you can try and include more shadowy parts in your direct study (the first square). It might help you when you're going into the gradient study!

Dissections look good as well, I can see you put a lot of thought and time into them. Just the thing I mentioned earlier with the lines. Also no hatching! For the charcoal or muscle eg. Try to refrain from these kinds of lines as much as possible. The broccoli, ash and lava look amazing by the way.

Both Intersection Assignments look good. No complaints here!

You did well overall! There's a bit of revision I'd like to ask of you though: Please do two more pages of the Organic Forms with Contour Ellipses. In addition I think you will profit of another Table of Ellipses, but that's optional. As long as you include that one in your Warm Ups it should be fine eventually.

Okay, that's it! Looking forward to hearing from you :D

Lerin

Next Steps:

2 Pages of Organic Forms with Contour Ellipses

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11:58 AM, Wednesday March 16th 2022

Thank you very much for the critique!

I will add ellipses to my warm ups. I notice that i get unsure when drawing ellipses which results in wobbly lines.

here are the revisions for the organic forms. (my ellipses felt much more confident this time) https://imgur.com/a/Eb9HRr5

5:49 PM, Wednesday March 16th 2022

Heyo!

Yeah I can definitely see you studied them in the meantime, definitely keep doing that! I think you're on a good way now :D The sausage shapes look better as well. I think you're ready for the next Lesson now ^^ If you have problems with the next Lesson you can check back here to remember what you did and how you improved on it.

Have fun in Lesson 3!

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Lesson 3!

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