Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
1:27 AM, Tuesday February 25th 2020
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5:04 PM, Tuesday March 3rd 2020
Arrows
They are looking good. You can improve them by trying to exaggerate how they come closer and closer towards the viewer. To do that, make the gaps between each fold bigger and bigger as they come towards the viewer, and make the arrow itself bigger and bigger as well. Do it as exponentially as you can.
Organic forms
You're doing a good job keeping them as simple forms, (2 balls connected by a tube of consistent width), and the lines of the forms themselves are pretty confident, good job! Main issues I can see is that your ellipses are a bit wobbly. Remember that you should aim for them to be confident. No matter how accurate a ellipse is, it will always be worse than a confident ellipse. Just like with lines.
Try to be aware of how the degrees of the ellipses shift in the forms as their angle towards the viewer changes.
Both in the ellipses and on the contour curves.
In textures you're a doing a pretty good job, both in the analysis focusing only on drawing cast shadows, and in the gradations; they have a nice transition from black and towards white.
The dissections look pretty good as well, though you're focusing in forms in some of them, like in the barnacles. Remember always to only draw shadows, not forms. You're making a good use of the silhouette, and your textures are wrapping around the forms, so good job!
On form intersections you're doing a good job making the forms feel as if they share a common space by mantaining a consistent shallow foreshortening on all of the forms. The main issue I can see is that, just like in the organic forms, your ellipses and balls are a bit wobbly. Remember always that confidence is more important than accuracy. Ghost and perform your marks confidently.
Lastly on organic intersections they get better as you go towards your second page, starting feeling more 3d and showing how they intersect better, but they still have a few issues. The first one is that you have forms that look that they are going to fall. Remember to, before adding any form, imagining how the form would fall on the forms bellow it, and how to draw its final position. Always draw stable forms.
You also have some issues with shadows sticking towards the forms. Remember that shadows should always follow the form of the form they are being casted on.
Next Steps:
Before marking it as complete I want you to do 2 more pages, one of the organic forms with ellipses, and another with organic form with contours, focus on making the ellipses and contours prioritizing confidence over accuracy, and try to be aware about how the degrees of the ellipses shift. Good luck and keep up the good work!
1:57 AM, Wednesday March 11th 2020
Thank you for the critique. Ive attached my revisions!
3:39 PM, Wednesday March 11th 2020
Those are better! You still have a liiittle bit of wobbling in some of them, so try to work on it on next warmups, and problems shifting the degrees of the ellipses; most of your ellipses have similar degrees. Try to think more about how they shift. I noted here some parts where your organic forms were wobbly and a few ellipses with their degrees shifted. So try to work on it as well.
Next Steps:
You've done a good job here, so I'm marking it as complete. Feel free to move into lesson 3 and keep up the good work!
3:41 PM, Wednesday March 11th 2020
Thank you for the notes. Very helpful and much appreciated.
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