Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

11:52 PM, Thursday September 2nd 2021

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Sorry but noticed that for my organic forms with contour ellipses and curves ... most of my ellipses that are suppose to show the side of the shape facing the viewer are actually on the side facing away from you instead face palm. Here are the assignments from lesson 2.

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6:22 PM, Monday September 6th 2021

Hey hey, I'll be reviewing your homework today!!

All in all I think you did a great job. I noticed the little blunder with the organic forms but hey we all make mistakes sometimes. I'm sure you'll keep an extra eye on this when you do this as warm up sometime!

  • Your arrows are looking good, smooth and confident lines, no overdrawing or shaky lines. Good job!

  • For the organic forms I noticed your ellipses sometimes shoot over the form, it's nothing major, just make sure to ghost enough times before placing the line!

  • I really like your texture analysis, it looks great! I know it's hard with sharp shadows like in the paper and the scales but really try for a smooth transition from black to lighter, since the border is pretty good visible in the first two studies. Third one is good, though. Proof you're learning :D

  • The Dissections are great as well, breaking the silhouette, no hatching or dotting, great. Homework said 2 pages though :D

  • Intersections look good as well with confident and smooth lines and overdrawn ellipses. Everything seems to fit in the same place, nice! Here 4 pages were required though.

  • Your organic intersections look great as well, there's really nothing I can complain about.

So all in all great job! I do recommend doing the missing pages, just for training purposes but what I saw was great so I don't think you necessarily have to if you don't want to.

So either do that or onward to Lesson 3! Good luck!

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I recommend doing the missing pages, but you don't have to. You can go on to Lesson 3!

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12:59 AM, Wednesday September 8th 2021
edited at 1:00 AM, Sep 8th 2021

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So sorry!! Looks like the other images/assignment sheets didn't upload eventhough I had them in the same folder. I'm re-uploading those two exercises. Hopefully this works and it shows the 2 and 4 pages. Thanks for the review!!

edited at 1:00 AM, Sep 8th 2021
6:51 AM, Wednesday September 8th 2021

Hey there, that's totally fine, it can happen! Like I said, I think you did a great job. Nothing I'd wanted to add haha. Wishing you lots of fun for the upcoming lesson!

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Lesson 3!

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