Arrows
Pretty good, try not to repeat lines, and exaggerate more how the arrows get bigger as they get closer to the viewer. Don't forget you can use lineweight to clarify overlaps as well.
Organic forms
Pretty good overall too, only thing is that you got some of your contours a bit wobbly, remember that confidence is always more important than accuracy, so try to be careful with that.
Textures
Good job overall, don't use hatching. Only use cast shadows, nothing else. Neither gradiations on black. You should only use the same tone of black, no values, no hatching, only areas of black. Dissections look pretty nice too, though you are focusing a bit too much at contours at times, remember that you should here too only draw cast shadows.
Form intersections
Good job overall here as well. Don't forget not to repeat lines, you've done it a few times. And remember that the objective of this exercise is to mantain consistent foreshortening, and to do that it's easier to do it with shallow foreshortening boxes, so focus on them on next attempts.
Organic intersections
Feels pretty 3d, but the linework is a bit scratchy. Here as well don't forget that confident lines will always be better than accurate lines, so don't hesitate on sacrificing accuracy to get your lines more confident.
Next Steps:
You're doing great, excepting the repeating lines thing, which is a pretty important issue. Just like the wobbly marks. Try to focus on that, and good luck on lesson 3!
Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate you taking the time. I agree I looked at some of the exercises after and things felt wobbly. I tried to use line weight to emphasize things which is why the repeated lines thing keeps happening.
I think the textures lesson got updated after I finished it and there was a mention of not using hatching, but I didn't realize beforehand lols.
If those were lineweight, remember not to add it to the inner sides of the boxes, only do it to the silhouette of them.
Yeah, textures got updates, and the new videos are very good, I recommend checking them out.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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