Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
5:41 PM, Saturday May 8th 2021
Thanks for checking out my submission! It's a bit rough here-and-there but I'm happy with my progress.
Hi Xulu,
Good job on completing lesson 2. I'll be reviewing your homework.
Organic Arrows
You made great use of perspective and you did great on overlapping your edges. One thing I notice is some wobbly lines. Try to make smooth, confident strokes by drawing from your shoulder.
Organic Forms with Contour Lines
You did great on drawing the ellipses and contour lines inside the organic forms. Drawing the ellipses in different degrees emphasized that the forms are floating in 3D space. So good work on that. I would practice more on drawing the organic forms itself. Some of them look a little straight, which makes them look flat. Remember, your sausages should always look like two identical spheres connected by a tube of consistent width.
Texture Analysis
You've made a great attempt at creating a transition from dense to sparse. You could've done this a little better in the last row though. Be careful with drawing the forms of the texture instead of the casting shadows. Other than that, good work.
Dissections
You drew the textures nicely around the forms and managed to break the silhouette. Well done.
Form Intersections
You did well on filling up the whole page with forms of consistent size and defined the intersections. What I do see, is some of your boxes are diverging. Keep the convergence in mind like you had during the 250 box challenge. Also, you've drawn some stretched spheres. For this exercises, try to draw circles for evenly shaped spheres.
Organic Intersections
Your organic forms look great. They're are placed nicely in a 3D space, giving them different kinds of flexibility and mass. Your casting shadows need a little more work though. Avoid letting the shadows stick to its forms.
Next Steps:
Well done! Continue with lesson 3.
It's a little late but thank you so much for the critique! It's very concise and helpful!
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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