Took a little while but eventually finished! Some of the line work in the later exercises came out a bit sloppy and could use some more practice but generally everything went smoothly and wasn't too difficult. I realize I may have over done it with some of the texture dissections but hopefully they still fall under the criteria.
Also thank you in advance for taking the time to give me feedback :)
Overall, excellent job on pretty much all of it.
Arrows and Organic Forms
Great work with the arrows. The line weight is handled especially well.
For the organic forms with ellipses and contour lines exercise, you often tend to make the degree of the first ellipse/contour too small which sometimes flattens out your sausages. This degree will always be very close to the contour ellipse at the tip of the sausage. (Either this or you make the degree of the tip counter ellipse to large) Getting this wrong makes the perspective somewhat confusing. Other than that, its pretty good. Especially the smoothness of the lines.
Also, try not to go over the contour curves twice. It might end up killing the dimensionality of the sausage instead if you botch the second go. Besides, the second go serves no real purpose here.
Textures
These are simply amazing! This must've taken hella long! Turtle shell and Large Chunky Scales are definitely my favorites.
Intersections
1.Inorganic intersections - I sucked at these so I can't really say much about the intersections themselves. But really good job on making them belong in the same space. Your lines are incredibly clean. They genuinely look like they're drawn with a ruler.
Pretty much the only thing you should pay more attention to is the contour line/ellipse thing.
Excellent work and good luck with the next lessons! You're gonna smash it!
Next Steps:
Move on to Lesson 3
I definitely agree with your critiques, the contour curves really mess me up and I need to take some more time to play around with them especially to get them down in one go, learning how fast is too fast (uncontrollable) or how slow is too slow (wobbly).
Thank you very much for the kind words and the feedback!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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