Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
8:48 PM, Tuesday May 16th 2023
Finally got to this lesson after the 250 Box Challenge, will post that later on too. Let me know how I did! Would loveto move on and improve!
Hello, congratulation on finishing lesson 2. I'll be only pointing out the thing that needs to be improved and Here are my observations:
I've seen some of your line weight run along the whole arrow or the whole section of planes, Lineweight should only be added to the part that overlaps as well, it is not needed to add lineweight to the full line. Please be mindful of your hatching lines, hatching lines are not second-class lines, and we should treat them with the same care as our construction lines.
Here I made a diagram to make things clearer :)
I don't have any issue with this exercise, just a suggestion for the organic form with contour curves. When you try to nail the curves try ghosting them in full ellipse or circle, so you have a sense of how the line wraps around the form.
Try to avoid using lines, instead try to approach it this way.
Don't scribble, I've seen a lot of your shapes are filled in with scribbles or kind of hatching lines and I think it's because you try to achieve some kinda mid-tone or halftone. We only try to capture the cast shadow here, no shading and we use ink here so your option is only black or white, you need to decide which part is the cast shadow (pitch black) and which one is not (pure white). Ink is not the right tool to achieve form shading.
A lot of your texture is flattened the form underneath it and I think it's because you're not breaking enough of the silhouette. Be more considerate of your mark, you put too much information on the texture by using dots and lines, focus on the cast shadow. Remember less is more.
Try to keep your form equilateral and try not to use the donut form. Line weight only be done with 1 line, no more so the line weight is not overdone and Lineweight needs to be done with a confident, ghosted line.
Remember to hook around your contour curve because it helps to understand how the form exists in space. The cast shadows have to follow the form of the object they're being cast on, not the form of the object that casts it.
I think that's all from me, I hope my feedback can be a help. With this I will mark your lesson as complete. Congratulations :)
Next Steps:
Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants
Thank you! I appreciate the review as I have been waiting on this for many months now.
I was a little confused by "and we use ink here so your option is only black or white..." only to right after read "...Ink is not the right tool to achieve form shading." Perhaps I misunderstand you somehow, I used nothing but what was asked for the lesson. Otherwise your advice was quite helpful! I thought it was a very illustrative description that "hatching lines are not second-class", I really had unconsciously been considering them as such and it really helps to keep such advice in mind. Much appreciated again, and excited to move on.
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