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Shouldn't the ellipses on Organic forms change side?

6:49 PM, Friday August 21st 2020

I'm on the second exercise of Lesson 2, where you draw contour lines around a sausage shape.

When drawing full ellipses it makes sense to me, but when drawing only the side that we see, shouldn't we need to change the side of the curvature in the middle?

Every example goes somewhat like O)))))))), with the degree getting smaller in the middle, but then bigger again.

But if we are looking at the side of it, shouldn't it be more like ((((|)))), since after it gets smaller in the middle we would be seing it from the other side?

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1:57 PM, Saturday August 22nd 2020
edited at 1:58 PM, Aug 22nd 2020

That's only if the viewer is looking at the center of the object, and the sausage is straight, like here.

The example that is confusing you could be something like this.

It's a bit confusing because the sausage can actually be moving and turning, and the only way to represent it is with the ellipses.

edited at 1:58 PM, Aug 22nd 2020
1:13 PM, Tuesday August 25th 2020

That makes more sense! I just couldn't wrap my head around a shape like your second example. And since there were no examples of sausages like the first one in the exercise page, I thought there really was something wrong with how I was thinking.

Thanks a lot!

3:25 PM, Tuesday August 25th 2020

no worries!

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