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11:44 AM, Monday June 28th 2021

Hello,

good job finishing Lesson 2! Here's some tips for the future:

  • Contour curves - ellipses degrees do not vary (they should vary similarly as contour ellipses cause the curve is just visible part of the ellipse)

  • organic intersection - I thinks some cast shadows are missing? (mainly forms in second picture top left, and first form on gorund plane)

  • intersections - as line weight is only on cuts sometimes it gets a bit confusing visually - you could add a bit of line weight on intersecting lines to show which ones are in front

  • arrows could use a bit of line weight too

Good luck in your art journey!

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Lesson 3

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1:26 PM, Monday June 28th 2021

Thank you so much for going out of your way to write this! i'll take all of this into consideration going into lesson 3. Thank you again.

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