Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
12:58 AM, Thursday October 14th 2021
Tough lesson that was hahaha
Helloo, I'll be reviewing your homework today!
First of all, congratulations on completing the exercises, it is indeed a tough lesson.
Arrows
Your arrows are great! The lines are confident and smooth and they are compressing as they get farther from the viewer, so well done!
Organic forms
These came out pretty good too, they are simple sausage forms, the ellipses are drawn through, their angles change, they are within the shape form and aligned. Also the contours are hooking the form, so congrats.
Texture analysis
You did a great job by drawing the cast shadow shapes, but the transition between the texture and that black bar could be smoother, we can easily recognize the bar.
Dissections
I noticed you didn't break the silhouette of the drawings, this is an important step to create the 3D illusion, I'll leave a link here on how you could've have done that.
Also be careful to wrap the texture around the form, usually it gets "squished" on the outer edges because the texture becomes farther from the viewer, I noticed you did that on some drawings so I guess it's more of a practice thing.
This is by far the hardest exercise of this lesson, so dont stress too much about it.
Form intersections
Your lines are great, but you should only draw then once. Other than that everything else looks pretty great.
Organic intersections
Here you kept the simple forms, which is great, but some of the sausages look like they are kind of floating, this is pretty common on the first time doing this exercises, but be careful on the next time. Also you're shading along the form instead of considering the form where the shadow is being casted on, I know this sounds confusing, I'll also put some examples on that same link I already shared.
Heres another example of how this can be done.
https://i.imgur.com/KJQhpn8.png
I hope this was useful somehow and i think you're ready for lesson 3!
Next Steps:
on to lesson 3
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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