Here is my second revision: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hmg_XJLtwq1k7bcJpCzs-32er8c8zGf2/view?usp=sharing
Thanks again for your feedback. Ill redo this as many times as necessary until I get it right. I also realized for the contour curves that I cusp the ending lines pretty terribly since they dont really align well with the entire shape. I can redo those if you think I should.
Your insect constructions certainly are moving more in the right direction. While there is still plenty of room for improvement and growth, it's very clear that you're trying to apply the points I raised, and that you're thinking much more about how the forms you add to the construction exist in 3D space, and how they wrap around the existing structure.
One thing I noticed when it comes to the leg constructions was that you didn't appear to make use of the techniques I shared with you from this demonstration, which I used extensively in the ant leg demo. You may want to take another look at those.
Looking at your organic forms with contour curves though, while you're definitely trying to shift the degree of your contour lines, you're doing it in the wrong direction. As we slide away from the viewer, the contour curves should be getting wider, not narrower. There are a few where you do this correctly, but you're pretty inconsistent, and I think you have the shift reversed more often than not. As I mentioned before, this concept is explained in the lesson 1 ellipses video.
While I am satisfied that the insect construction work is progressing in the right direction (though of course, you'll continue working on applying these concepts into the next lesson and in your own practice), I do want to make sure that you can handle these organic forms with contour curves correctly. I'll assign a couple additional pages of them below.
Next Steps:
Please submit 2 more pages of organic forms with contour curves.
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I am confused on how we know when a form is sliding away from the viewer? If we are the ones constructing a form (essentially the illusion) on 2D paper, then can't any side of an organic form face the viewer?
Also, if I make an organic form and it is facing the viewer but turns around in space, then can't the organic form have a wide contour curve and then as it turns have a narrower one? Like for example a half donut? Both ends will have wide contours, but the middle would be narrow since that is the point where it turns.
So to clarify the first part - I mean that the contour lines positioned farther away from the viewer along the form, if it isn't turning or anything and just remains fairly straight, will get wider, and those positioned closer to the viewer will be narrower. Not that some forms are moving away or towards.
To the second point, if the sausage form itself is turning in space, then this also will impact the degree of the contour line. At the end of the day, the degree represents the orientation of the cross-sectional slice, relative to the viewer's own angle of sight. This means that if the sausage itself is bending, then that orientation will certainly change - but even if it's totally straight like a cylinder, the angle between the viewer's angle of sight and its own orientation will change, as shown here.
Thanks for the feedback! Your apartment flooded?! I am sorry. I hope youre doing okay. Your content is still really amazing even if some of it is outdated. Anyways, here is my third revision. I tried setting the viewer to directly look at the contour ellipse at the pole. I understand what you mean now by varying degrees:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jredKnjht_RVhJ_YXPTlUZ2FUj1xcvx1/view?usp=sharing
Yep, a sprinkler pipe burst. We had to move out while they did repairs. Eventually we ended up signing a lease in a new place, but we were only barely able to move in before we had to fly out to help my parents move out of their house. Since we won't be back in town until September, that'll be when I start doing the overhaul again.
Anyway, your work here is definitely showing a better overall understanding of how these contour lines should bew orking. Just make sure that you're keeping it consistent with the ellipse at the end. There are a few cases, like this one where the contour curve just before the ellipse is very narrow, but the ellipse itself is drawn to be much wider. Of course, you have many others where that relationship is more correct.
This is definitely significant progress, so I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 5.
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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