Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

6:32 PM, Friday January 28th 2022

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Halfway thought the dissections exercise I remembered iI should be doing implicit textures!

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5:46 AM, Sunday January 30th 2022

Hey Hanyuu, I'll be taking a look at your submission!

Organic Arrows & Forms:

  • They're smooth & confidently drawn from shoulder.

  • Don't slowly trace the previous mark when doing lineweight, make sure you avoid it & always ghost before doing them.

  • You can try making the arrow a little more bigger when they're toward the viewer, if you keep the distance between each fold same or less, then it would result in less depth(have them grow in distance as well). This is what I mean https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/011d064f.jpg

  • Ends of your organic forms are quite elongated, when doing them think of 2 nearly same balls(sphere) connected by a tube, see https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage

  • Sometimes your ellipses are not aligned & perpendicular to the minor axis(as it should cut them in half). Ghost some more than usual & they should be aligned with practice(also for when the curves & ellipses are not touching the boundaries).

  • I can see you've tried to gradually change the degrees of the ellipses but you need to be more consistent with it, don't drastically make width of ellipses a lot thinner.

Texture Analysis:

  • You transition seems gradual except for the dense part where we can still the the black bar, you should try to melt it with the texture, if you want you can exaggerate the cast shadows near those portion.

  • For cast shadows it would be better if you could avoid or keep lines like shadows to minimum & only if they're taken from reference(not random lines please). This is how you should be approaching them https://imgur.com/M9JJfr4, first you outline the shadow & then fill it(even when they look lines simple lines).

Dissections:

  • Most of your textures are wrapping around the form and you've tried to break the silhouette of most of the form, nice work.

  • Some of the texture could've used variation in the detail density, though you've tried this in few of them.

Form Intersections:

  • Other than first page(where some boxes drawn with dramatic & other with shallow foreshortening ), your 3D forms feels consistent with each other.

  • Good work on the intersections, I think you understood how those edges meet quite well. This is just a little nitpick from me but you can try to have some of those forms also emerge out of other forms, to have even more interesting intersections :)

Organic Intersections:

  • Because of issues from how you draw sausage forms, these forms feels way too solid, then they should be. But you've followed the instructions of this exercise & drew through these forms.

  • You could work more on improving the stability of these forms when they're on top of each other, so they don't fall off their surface.

Overall

For the most part you've followed the instructions in the exercises, just some improvement is required for the organic forms right now, so you don't have much problem with them later on.

Next Steps:

  • 2 Pages of Organic forms with just Contour ellipses(you can include few( maybe 2 or3) with contour curves if you want to)

Read the instructions again from the exercise & follow simple form https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage

Reply with link to the revisions.

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4:08 PM, Sunday January 30th 2022
edited at 4:08 PM, Jan 30th 2022

Thank you very very much for the critique!

For lesson 2 the organic Forms was one of the hardest exercises for me because it's really difficult to see them as 3d forms and not ellipses inside a form. This was not a problem for the Intersections exercise as I tried to see the relations between them and put it in a 3d space, but isolated sausages gets really hard (for me).

https://imgur.com/a/sjgTLfM

I included 2 more pages because i feel like the forms got too big!

Again, thank you very much

edited at 4:08 PM, Jan 30th 2022
5:32 AM, Monday January 31st 2022

Good work on the revisions. The sausage forms have improved quite a lot from the previous versions, though sometimes the ellipses are getting out of the forms but with ghosting & enough practicing it can be better.

Next Steps:

Congrats on completing lesson 2!!

Feels free to move on to lesson 3 & keep doing those forms along with exercises from previous lesson in your warm ups.

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