Hie Tawny Owl,
I hope you are doing good. I will try my best to critique your work.
Arrows: Good job on drawing the arrows. The main focus of the assignment is seen from your work. The Arrows are shortening and getting bigger as the distance gets less. I see you tried different type of bends giving it the 3D look. The lines also look fairly confident.
Sausage Shapes:: Your sausage shapes are fairly decent. Your work is technically correct. I would suggest for future drawings try to add variations on the size of the ellipses drawn remembering those are the viewpoints on how a viewer would see a circle. More of the circle meaning more turn towards/ opposite to the viewer. We can try to exegarate this. Currently they dont have lot of variations. Same with Organic forms with contour lines. Try to give them more of a curve for future practice.
Texture Analysis: Perfect. loving it.
Disections: Both the dissections are amazing. Great details and good control over contrast and shadows and not getting into drawing random lines or 'sketching'. They are technically correct. One improvement i would like to suggest you here would be to keep in mind or imagine how the sausage shape is moving in the space. Due to this the texture on top of it would also flow or change. I can see that in few spaces but its not much. Example: Cucumber. Knowinging that the small circle is the bottom part ( pole ) of the cucumber then the black strips would end & start on that circle on all the sides. In your case it goes besides it if that makes sense? You can notice that in multiple disections as the shapes don't go around the shape as the shape change. Also do not be afraid to let that texture come outside of the border of the sausage shape. Overall the texture looks really good.
Form Intersection: They do feel like they belong to same space. This seems to be on right track.
Organic Intersection: Great job here as well. The forms look on top of each other. The cast shadow also seem consistent. One thing you can do is exagerate few of the forms as flat as if there's weight put on top of water balloons. Regardless the contour also seem correct. Good Job here as welll.
Next Steps:
You can move on to Lesson 3.
Thank you Heiwa for the critique!
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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