Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

8:15 PM, Monday May 23rd 2022

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Lesson 2 completed. Took me way longer than I expected, but I had been more or less satisfied with the process.

What is your opinion? I really want to improve my texturing skills, what could you suggest? Here are the references https://imgur.com/a/TCW36cb, you may compare them if you want to. I tried to use cast shadows whenever possible (although my attention slipped on a few occasions).

Especially, I'm interested in hair and fur, since they are the most useful, but quite difficult for me. As compared with some other submissions, maybe I'm underanalyzing stuff? (they look far more detailed)

As fot the form intersections, the first page turned out to be not very good because I was a bit confused about the foreshortening rate staying constant, but then it got better, I think. Do you have any advice for them too?

Thank you greatly for your time to check this submisson out!

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1:06 AM, Saturday May 28th 2022

Hello! It will be a pleasure to correct your homework.

I will try to highlight the general details, and at the end I will answer something about your doubts.

Organic arrows:

-You are going through the outline of your arrows properly, which is good.

-The line weight also looks correctly applied.

  • However the depth/perspective of your arrows is not noticeable.

The reason is that you are not compressing the size and spacing between the folds from the beginning to the end of the arrow.

You are doing this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/0f7c806c.jpg

When it should be like this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/011d064f.jpg

Ellipses and contour curves:

  • For starters, the overall shape of your "sausages" is simple and correct. There is no deformation in the middle or any place.....

  • Regarding the ellipses, they are well aligned to the minor axis, and also change degree correctly as they move away from the center.

  • The contour curves are quite good.

Not much to mention here.

Textures:

  • It looks like you're focusing on the cast shadows here, correctly.

  • The transition from dark to light is not bad.

I'll still leave you a guide that can help you get a better transition:

https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/7d1f3467.jpg

Dissections:

  • I'm impressed with how well handled the textures are here, and that despite their complexity you've kept drawing the cast shadows.

  • The fact that you're playing with the silhouette and the rolling of the texture into the shape, adheres realism to the texture itself. Perfect

Shape Intersections:

  • The general idea of this exercise, is to make the shapes drawn on the page appear to be in the same scene.

You achieve this by using a shallow foreshortening and drawing shapes with equal length of sides.

Perhaps you didn't manage to demonstrate this effect much in your pages (although, the last page comes very close).

  • I see you tried to handle intersections! If you don't understand them yet, that's okay. They will be looked at in more depth in the following lessons.

Organic intersections:

  • There is a nice solidity to your organic shapes.

You can actually notice a weight to them.

  • You will notice that a few shapes seem to be unsteady.

It is as if they are not suspended above the others.

And this is a mistake that needs to be corrected.

This diagram is often helpful: https://i.imgur.com/KJQhpn8.png

If it still gets complicated, try to think of each organic shape as a water balloon, falling on top of another.

This way you will be thinking in terms of gravity and solidity.

Conclusion:

  • You've handled everything generally well.

However, I'll leave you a bit of homework to correct details in the intersections of shapes.

  • Regarding your doubt with the hair textures.

These are generally very subtle, and you are applying a lot of line weight to them; which may be killing the hair effect.

Still, you are capturing the growth pattern well.

So, to get more of the hair effect, try not to apply too much line weight for density, rather add more hair!

  • Your question about the intersections of shapes, I think is answered with my review above.

Next Steps:

Draw:

  • 1 sheet of intersections of shapes.

(With a shallower foreshortening, and keeping your shapes of similar size).

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:15 PM, Monday May 30th 2022

Hello, thank you greatly for taking your time and writing such a detailed critique! Sorry, if you had to wait too long for the answer! I really appreciate your comment about hair, I confirmed that it's indeed the case in yesterday's 50%-rule drawing.

Here I redid one page of the intersections https://imgur.com/a/XejQaFn, tried my best to keep the foreshortening consistent and the items to be roughly the same size.

11:53 PM, Tuesday May 31st 2022

Oh, don't worry about the wait time! I hope you didn't have to rush through it actually.

  • The new intersections page looks great, actually.

Comparing it to the previous ones, you'll see that in this one the objects look much more related.

I will now mark your lesson as complete; and go ahead without hurrying.

  • Glad to hear my comment about the hair was helpful too!
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5:11 PM, Wednesday June 1st 2022

No, no rushing, I try to go in a comfortable rate. I'm very glad you think there's improvement in the form intersections excersice, it's actually pretty amusing, makes me feel like I'm a brutalism-style architect.

Again, thank you for your review!

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