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9:11 AM, Tuesday August 3rd 2021

Thanks for the remarks. I noted them done for when I'll draw the ones I'll submit officially. I've tried to do the last 2 organic intersection and organics forms.

https://imgur.com/gallery/0NK3kEL

Could you please make some comment? I still have trouble to marks where forms intersects...

2:22 AM, Thursday August 5th 2021

Don't have too much time right now but I'll try to leave some helpful critique here:

Regarding the form intersections, it's perfectly normal to not understand them at this stage, the intersections are not really the point of the exercise (at least right now, they're more important when you do them as part of lesson 6). Just try to think about them, and not worry too much about getting them correct. The goal of this exercise is rather to get the forms to exist believably together, for the most part I think you do this pretty well, though watch your line work, it does get a bit wobbly at places.

For organic intersections, it does seem like you're having some trouble wrapping the forms around each other. Use the contour lines as guidelines to tell you where the bottom edge of the form on top should go, it should follow pretty closely to the contour line (until the bottom half anyways). Your cast shadows right now are too close to the form itself, it's almost as if they're extra thick line weight. Try to push them out more, make them a bit further away from the form itself. Putting the light source at the top left or top right can help with this.

Hope this helps!

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