Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
10:38 AM, Wednesday August 5th 2020
Please critic and comment. Thanks in advance.
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1:35 PM, Wednesday December 23rd 2020
1 Arrows are fine. I think in a couple of cases the shading in on the outside rather than the inside of the ribbon but it can be tricky to tell.
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Organic forms are great. I don't you need that many ellipses within the form, but they all look really accurate so that's a win.
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Textures are very good. I a very few cases the perhaps don't wrap (like the fries and strawberry) the organic form, maybe you could work on the silhouette and bending the texture a bit.
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The Organic Intersections work very well and the viewer really believes they have weight.
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The Form Intersections I find harder to judge. The forms are excellent but, as someone who is still a beginner and only just done these excercises myself - and not as well - my brain still find making sense of the intersections very hard.
Overall I think you can confidently move on to the next lesson.
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9:21 PM, Friday January 15th 2021
Great job overall, I think you're ready to move on.
Here are a couple things you could work on:
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You may have forgotten to do the intersections on the intersections of forms excercise. It looks like you just drew the shapes.
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The textures on the dissections exercise look a little bit too explicit in places and it might be good to think about where the shadows are falling more than the objects.
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