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Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

11:53 AM, Saturday September 5th 2020

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Sweet lord this took me a little long but I've done it. Got real, real caught up on the dissections, why did I draw so many on one page? Clearly I love to suffer. These were pretty challenging and the texture stuff in particular sent me through to hell and back, but I'm pretty stoked about these little skills I'm learning. Just bought Alphonso Dunn's book on inking which sort of expands on the same ideas, it's awesome. Feel free to construct critique and all that, love to hear your feedback! Sorry if the photos are ass, I did tune up the brightness but unfortunately I'm in Britain so they're pretty grim.

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