Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

5:26 PM, Sunday March 10th 2024

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This took way longer than I anticipated / would have liked. I took a long break during the middle of the texture analysis exercise and came back to finish the lesson 2. I know I'm no longer on the official review track, so I'm submitting this for community review.

The dissection exercise was especially challenging to me. I had to change approach between page 1 and page 2 because I was too perfectionist, I was was taking forever to finish page 1 ...

In my 250 box challenge review, I was told to draw bigger, so I tried to keep that in mind when doing the lesson 2 homework. With varying degrees of success, ah ah. For the texture homework, I did not reuse the pages from the organic intersections exercice precisely because the forms were too small.

Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks in advance

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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.

In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.

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