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Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

1:00 AM, Thursday July 2nd 2020

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The textures part kept me pretty busy, I think I spent weeks on it and it's kind of what I wanted..? It's something I feel I need to improve along with patience and just stopping to observe my reference and it was actually relaxing sometimes, so yeah I moved slowly through those exercises. Now that I look at them I feel some of these textures might need to be more dynamic? I'm afraid they might look kind of boring or needing better "overall" design.

The forms intersections exercise was actually pretty confusing, I had to try my best to picture these forms in my head crossing with each other and get a clue where the divisions are.

Please share any critiques or feedback, it'd be very appreciated :>

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3:12 PM, Sunday July 5th 2020

HI,

I'm really struggling to find anything that I can critique since all the exercises are done to a really high standard!

I'm not sure what you mean about your textures being more dynamic since I think you've done a really good job of wrapping them around the cylindrical forms and also breaking the sillouette in interesting and appealing ways in the dissections.

In the texture analysis You could possibly vary the shapes a bit more, considering contrast between large and small shapes to create a more appealing design.

The form intersections are really impressive, especially where cylinders and spheres intersect! and your use of line weight helps a lot in identifying the overlaps.

some of the cast shadows on the organic intersections could wrap around the forms they are cast onto a little bit better, there is one area where the cast shadow falls off the form it is cast onto and continues on the ground plane and it would be nice to see a more clear change in the angle of the shadow to illustrate this plane change.

Overall this is fantastic work, I think I can learn a lot by looking at how you approached these!

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9:31 AM, Monday July 6th 2020

tysm!!

I just feel there's some degree of repetitiveness on some of my textures, like you said maybe I could vary the shapes a little more.

If it helps, the way I did each texture was looking at my reference for at least two minutes before I started drawing, even if I had already found a pattern, you just keep finding new things on the image and the way the texture's made, I would repeat this every ten minutes or so for the same texture. That's how I did the dissections exercise, aside from the time I invested on each texture, each area in this exercise took me nearly half an hour..

For the form intersections I might post a sketchbook later to illustrate what I was imagining to do some of the intersections :>, hopefully it'll aid others on this type of things.

Again thanks so much for the feedback, it's really appreciated!

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