Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
9:44 PM, Tuesday June 1st 2021
This lesson took an entire pandemic to finish! I've been working on this course alongside Proko's figure drawing course. So many major life experiences happened from the time I started this to now, but I've finally managed to finish lesson 2.
Organic arrows were fairly straightforward and fun, though I got confused by perspective and shaded the wrong areas in some parts.
Organic forms were also fun, I feel like they really helped me understand the speed at which I should draw. Starting DaB I was going way too fast.
Texture analysis I feel like I understand fairly well but I need to work on deepening shadows. I also did it a little out of order, didn't catch that I was supposed to do crumpled paper first so I ended up analyzing 4 textures instead of 3.
Dissections were by far the longest and this is where I figured out much too late that I should be using printer paper and not sketch paper. My pen tip started drying out at certain angles, so I would try making marks off the page before starting to know what angle I need to use. Eventually I just got a paper towel to do this with instead.
I found this assignment difficult on top of being time consuming. Previous assignment was focused on cast shadows, while I found I had to disregard that here for silhouettes.
I spent more time drawing personal art than doing studies during this period as well.
Form intersections were actually pretty fun and relaxing. Familiar too as someone whos played GMod and literally clipped boxes into eachother.
I need to practice more with cylinders, and I feel like Im drawing boxes slower than others do.
Organic intersections confused me a bit. Everything in drawabox that I've done so far aside from textures has required me to draw through forms, but some examples shown for this assignment show otherwise. Yet the video lesson, things are being drawn through... so I ended up drawing through the forms. This was also my first use of a brush pen, so there's some blocky/bumpy shadow mistakes here and there.
Overall I feel like I've gained an overwhelming amount of knowledge on art fundamentals and I'm a lot more confident drawing now! It's amazing that these lessons are free. As an autistic person I appreciate that these lessons have clear instructions, visual notes and a tendency to hammer themselves into my brain at a reasonable pace. I felt there was a lot of time for all the info to actually sink in while not being dreadfully slow. Thank you for offering these lessons and critiques!