Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

11:44 AM, Saturday May 29th 2021

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Lesson 2 took me far too long... the dissections homework and the form intersections made me procrastinate too much lol.

Thank you for taking the time to look through :)

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6:08 AM, Thursday June 3rd 2021

Good day!

You have done a great job overall. Textures and dissections are rather good and while I don't recognize the textures, dissections are rather recognizable and you have done a great job. Textures and dissections is a lot of time and staring, so you are not the only one spending much time on it. Sausages and form intersections are also well done.

So here are some things I'd like you to pay attention to: Your arrows should compress in width to really show that depth. See https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/0f7c806c.jpg and https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/011d064f.jpg . Your second page has some nice arrows but some of them are not compressing. So try out more of those in your warmups, paying more attention to the gaps between folds.

Intersections are rather fine. Your pyramids can be improved if you imagine that the line that comes from the center is perpendicular to the base planes but they aren't as bad as you make them to be. It would also be nice if you would add lineweight to both forms that intersect (I often see that you do this only for 1 form).

Your sausages are floating but they should be sagging, so lower those ends. Also as you have noticed yourself, your shadows are indeed too attached to the casting form (see https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/516f8d4f.jpg). Don't be afraid of making them long! Refresh your memory https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/organicintersections and notice how saggy those sausages are, they look like water balloons.

I believe you can move on. Add these exercises to your wamups and you should be fine!

Next Steps:

Move to the next lesson and add L2 exercises to the warmups, paying more attention to organic intersections and arrows.

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7:15 AM, Saturday June 5th 2021

Thank you for reviewing my work :) I will work on your advice about my organic intersections and arrows in future warmups. Have a great day/evening.

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