Hi I see that you have submitted lessons 2 and 3, it is not recommended to move on to the next lesson until you have received critiques on your homework, so I'll help you with that.
-Starting with your arrows, you do a great job, drawing them with confidence and really capturing the fluidity with which they move through space, but I would suggest you keep the foreshortening form being so dramatic and also try to add more lineweight to some areas as some of your lines fade away at the ends. Here you can get an idea for how to do that.
-Moving on to the organic forms with countour curves/ellipses, I like how you kept them simple and avoided any bloating or pinching trough the forms, but you can still work on them, keep in mind that we also want to create our forms with both ends being the same size as shown here.
The ellipses are good, but you could improve their alignments and the degree shifts,you're definitely moving in the right direction here though.
-Continuing to the textures analysis, I can see that you are doing pretty well, focusing on cast shadows, I'd also like to quickly direct you to this image which shows that when we're working with thin line like textures if we outline and fill the shadow we will create a much more dynamic texture than simply drawing lines. Just remember to keep the transition from light to sparse as subtle as possible and to be mindful of where you want the focal points to be.
-Looking at your forms intersection exercise, I couldn't find any clue as to the intersections themselves, it seems that you only drew the forms but forgot the intersections, which is the point of this exercise.This exercise is meant to get students to start thinking about how their forms relate to one another in 3D space, and how to define those relationships on the page.
-Finishing with the organic intersections exercise your forms wrap around each other believably, when drawing your shadows you don't always push them far enough to cast, instead they mostly hug the form creating them, try pushing them further. Your shadows appear to be following a consistent light source, be sure to experiment with different angles and intensities when trying this exercise again in the future.
Next Steps:
I will ask you to redo the form intersections exercise, this time drawing the intersections. Here's a reminder of what your homework should look like.
The rivision
Alright, I don't have much to say here, as this exercise is all abut trying to understand how the forms interact between each other, and I can clearly see that you are making an effort to draw them, so just keep practicing this. So I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.
Thank you :) I'll keep trying
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