Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

8:59 AM, Sunday April 4th 2021

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The exercises improved after incorporating them as warmups but these ones are the first version so it's really bad. Especially the arrows and the intersections. The organic intersections will be a great warmup and I hope to improve that.

I have also regressed to chicken scratches which I am hoping to correct. Maybe using fineliners that aren't broken would help.

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12:40 AM, Wednesday April 7th 2021

Nice job getting through the second lesson OPTIMUSERIK!

  • Arrows: You want flowy lines, so don't slow down and let them get wobbly. Confident is better than wobbly even if it misses the mark by a bit. You didn't do the line weight part of this exercise, so you may want to go reread the instructions and practice that a bit.

  • Sausages: Practice your ellipses as a warm up. Ellipses are really hard, but yours are going too far out of bounds and its holding back your drawings.

  • Solid Intersections: Some of your better work imo

  • Organic Intersections: Bend the sausages more. They should wrap around the one they sit on as much as its contour lines wrap around it.

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7:48 AM, Saturday April 10th 2021

Thank you for the critique.

In my warmups I deffinitely went and focused a lot on doing ellipses. They are still not in bound but they are much more smooth. The contour curves however I am still struggling with.

I only noticed much later during warmups that the arrows really don't feel right and I saw that I completely missed the line weight part. I am also struggling with that a lot. Any attempt to add line weight just adds more lines that completely miss the mark.

I felt like I was having an absolute workout with the solid intersections. It has been a while since my mind has worked this hard on something that looks so simple. I don't know if it is any good or how to figure out if it is, but I tried.

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