Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

2:31 AM, Tuesday November 17th 2020

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I had trouble with the form intersections the most. Any more guidance on how to understand that lesson better? Does everything else look ok? Thanks for any critiques!

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9:15 AM, Tuesday November 17th 2020

Arrows wobble here. Remember confidence > accuracy. Arrows are on the right track overall though, one thing you're missing that's keeping them from flowing through space is your arrows don't compress more when they're farther away. Also, make sure not to crop out your arrows. They should fit nicely on the page.

Organic Forms have their ends a bit pointy. Remember they should be balls. The ellipses flow through space but the contour curves have their degrees all the same. One thing you can do is ghost an ellipse so you have a better understanding of how the curve should turn as you hook around the surface. You should hook the curves the other way if you want to show them turning through space since that's the side visible to the viewer.

Textures are great overall. Only issues are you have some white dots on shadows meant to be filled entirely in black. Try to make them as even as possible. A brush pen helps with that. The other thing is some textures on the organic forms lay flat instead of curving along the form's surface. Other than that, you did good.

Form intersections have a few issues such as wobbling lines. If you're not doing the routine warmups, make sure to do so as to make this less of a problem. Some of your forms are a bit stretched out. Remember that they should be equilateral. Some are also grouped and crop out of the page. Make sure to keep them closely centered onto the page. Don't worry too much with the intersecting lines. Your main priority is to make the shapes look like they belong in the same scene with each other. You do that by making the convergences consistently shallow which they are for the most part. Good job with that. You can change up the box orientation to make the more varied, just make sure that the vanishing point's always fall off the page.

Organic intersections feel super solid. Honestly you did great here. I have nothing to add. Good job!

Good work overall. I'll mark this as complete so you can move onto lesson 3. Good luck!

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2:12 AM, Tuesday December 15th 2020

Thank you for the critiques!

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