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.
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.
Next Steps:
Move onto the next thing!
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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