Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
12:20 AM, Saturday December 11th 2021
Lesson 2 ready for critique
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6:06 PM, Wednesday December 15th 2021
Organic Arrows: Good job! One small error you made was that you use hatching where it isn't really needed. You use it on turns on the outside of the arrow that face the viewer. Hatching in this exercise is used on the insides of the arrow that are hidden from us. You added hatching on the side that is facing us. This isn't a huge deal but it does make your arrows a bit more confusing than they need to be.
Organic Forms: Not bad, but both pages share two significant errors. Your cross-sectional ellipses on page one do not change degrees at all, same goes for your contour curves on page 2. Those are pretty uniform. Your ellipses are pretty wobbly and some don't even touch the edge of the form. Your contour curves also don't hook around the surface of your form, not even touching the edge. This is not a bad attempt but I highly recommend you redo this exercise before moving on, because it's going to be super important if you're going to proceed with this course.
Texture Analysis: Well done. You definitely put time into observing the textures of these materials. And you follow the transition from dense to sparse.
Dissections: Great work. Your textures are all thought out and deliberate, proving you spent time observing your reference. My only critique here is that you don't mind the curvature that much, and some textures kind of emerge from the side of the sausage to its rounded edge kinda flatly. Our textures in this exercise behave like paper wrapped around a tube, they follow the tube all around it.
Form Intersection: Awesome work. You could have added more intersections with your forms, but that was optional and you still did what the assignment asked and avoided all major mistakes.
Organic Intersection: Your shadows are a bit too exaggerated in some areas. In some places, you have shadows spilling over one sausage to the next. This is a bit distracting and unnecessary, and some of these extra shadows don't even follow the curvature of the form, they just go straight down. You are making the same errors with your contour curves as the start
You definitely understand the material and I can tell you tried your best. Good job, but I still think you should revisit the Organic Forms exercise. Don't worry. You'll get the hang of it in no time and then the future lessons will be easier for you.
Next Steps:
Redo both pages of organic forms.
11:50 PM, Thursday December 16th 2021
Hi Rac first of all thank you for your reply, I appreciate it.
I have done my revisions hopefully they are better this time, I still had some trouble with the ellipses but I decided not to grind. https://imgur.com/a/K2zYkWq
3:52 PM, Friday December 17th 2021
These are definitely better. You undershoot some of your ellipses still, but that'll get better with practice. You can move on to lesson 3 if you want.
Next Steps:
Lesson 3
4:07 PM, Friday December 17th 2021
Thanks for your help Rac, I cannot thank you enough.
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