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4:15 PM, Tuesday July 28th 2020

Hi,

General feedback - It seems like you are rushing through the exercises and homeworks. You are reproducing some common mistakes that can easily be avoided. I think you could gain and learn a lot by just taking more time per each exercise, reviewing the common mistakes sections and focusing on applying those learnings.

Organic Arrows - Your arrows look flat. Some of your arrows don't overlap at all. The ones that do use a weird perspective, where often they are wider at the midsection than both of the ends. Some arrows are generally just wobbly and widen and shorten completely arbitrarily. All of these mistakes compounded make the arrows look flat.

Organic Forms - Some of your sausages are distorted. Remember, there's a list of things you should avoid in the homework explanation. These include:

  • Ends of different sizes

  • Roundedness on the ends that stretches farther than the size of a sphere

  • Midsections that swell or pinch

Texture Analysis - Your textures from the analysis are very 'simplified'. Transition from dark to light is almost non-existent, especially on "Dry ground cracks" analysis. I don't have any other feedback for this except devote more time to it and try to notice the detail in the textures.

Texture Dissections - Your sasuages are pretty distorted here as well(they seem like different sausages). Your textures also seem a bit flat, they do not curve with the sausages(They should!). It also seems like you are drawing the forms of the texture too much. You should try focusing more on the shadows. I am also guilty of this. Look at other people's work for inspiration, and provide more time for studying the textures.

Form Intersections - Again, your forms are pretty distorted. I saw your 250 box challenge and you can draw a box there without issue. It just seems like you are not investing enough time here. You are rushing through the boxes, theres even several boxes where you forgot to draw all the faces!!! Some objects(like the cylinder on the last page) are intersecting with empty space? You should also add hatch lines to the face that's directed at the viewer, this will make it easier to discern the objects.

Organic Intersections - Again, distorted sausages. A lot of the shadows seem arbitrarily placed as well. First page of organic intersection, the sausage on lower right(page is flipped for some reason) is drawn completely behind the "main sausage", for some reason though you drew it casting a shadow over the main sausage. This also happens in other places(second drawing, sausage on top of the pile is drawn behind the one below, yet casts a shadow on it's front)

If I had to summarize the feedback it would be - Don't rush it. 90% of your issues will be solved just by devoting more time to the exercise and focusing on the task definition so as to avoid the common mistakes.

Next Steps:

I would recommend redoing at least a page of each exercise. Take it easy, plan out your moves and lines and everything will be fine.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
12:39 AM, Friday August 14th 2020

Finshed I thanks for the critique I think what you said had I big impact on my textures

https://imgur.com/gallery/8UD95J7

8:02 PM, Friday August 14th 2020

I can see the improvement.

Your organic arrows no longer look as flat, they have more depth now.

Your textures now follow the shapes of the objects they are on more.

There is still room for improvement, but we are not looking for perfectionism here.I think you are starting to absorb the concepts from lesson 2, so I'll mark the lesson as complete. Good luck with lesson 3!

Next Steps:

Keep practicing your texture work. You will have to use it more and more in future lessons.

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