Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
5:54 AM, Thursday December 31st 2020
took me 3 months but I've finally done it, be as honest as you can possibly be!
Looks good! The arrows are superb!
You could stand to draw through some of the larger contour ellipses all the way around the second time. You also have a chance to vary the degree of the ellipses more. The countour curves could also benefit from increasing degree as the sausage moves away from the viewer.
The texture studies could benefit from making the detail shadows(ex: the T's inside the cauliflower) darker on the left and disappear more rapidly. The orange skin is a great example of you doing that!
Form intersections are great! Looks like you might have cut of a corner or two in https://i.imgur.com/rRPsSER.jpeg with the top row of boxes. I don't worry about this too much, since you seem to have followed the surfaces for the rest of them
Your overlapping form shaddows could follow the contours of the surfaces more. Exaggerating a cast shadow in that way can help convey volume of the underlying form more than if you were following the shadows found in reality.
Overall solid job and happy to mark this complete!
If you're willing, I'd appreciate a review of my submission: https://drawabox.com/community/submission/BM06QITQ
Next Steps:
Noice work! Full send lesson 3
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.
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