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10:56 PM, Thursday February 6th 2020

These are phenomenally better. Your organic intersections are looking very solid now, and you've done a much better job of nailing the simple sausage forms in your organic forms with contour lines. I do feel that you're still struggling with getting your contour curves/ellipses' degrees correct. With the contour curves they all seem consistent once again and with the contour ellipses I think you're getting them a little backwards.

You tend to put the widest ellipse in the middle and the narrowest ones out towards the ends. If anything, it'd be the other way around - narrowest one in the middle and widest ones out to the sides, assuming this sausage is sitting directly in front of you. Alternatively you might have it narrower on one end (the end closest to you), and wider on the other end.

Anyway, this is something you can continue working on in your warmups, so make sure you're paying special attention to this concept. You'll also run into it in the branches exercise from the next lesson. I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Move onto lesson 3.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
8:11 AM, Friday February 7th 2020

Thank you for the feedback. I understand now what you mean by getting the ellispes backwards, I will try to focus on that. I still feel that all my form intersections all look a bit samey. I think I need to force myself to experiment with them more.

Should I start doing the texture challenge in parallel with lesson 3, or should I wait to start that? What about the cylinder one?

7:45 PM, Friday February 7th 2020

You're welcome to start the texture challenge in parallel with lesson 3 and onwards. Cylinder challenge is best done after lesson 5, and it is a prerequisite for lesson 6.

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