Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

7:19 AM, Wednesday July 28th 2021

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Had difficulty with textures and form intersections but pushed through!

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1:58 PM, Wednesday July 28th 2021

Arrows : Pretty solid if I say so myself. You've done a very good job exploring the 3d space with these. They are smooth and have confident lines. Amazing work.

Organic Forms: This is the exercise that I was talking about that you will have to repeat. You have the ellipses and contours following the axis of the body to an acceptable extent. This is true both the contours and the ellipses so good job on that. The small ellipse on top of the form seems to be somewhat off consistently however. It's always either way too far inside or has way too high of a degree. Remember that the plane of the cap is the plane closest to you, so it should have a smaller degree than the rest of the ellipses.

Texture Analysis: You've done a good job with these in general. There are a couple of things I'd like to point out though. The medium light zone on the paper texture could have been a little less dense you could have used much lesser of the sharp lines in that region. In the rock texture, I think you should have directly copied the reference and fit the two ends to lighter and darker conditions. Reproducing the texture on your own is very hard after all. In your attempt, I think I understand why the rock surface looks so off. The shadow shapes on one rock are all of the same size, which is very unlike your reference. One rock has one big shape and 4 or 5 small shapes in the reference whereas you have two big very similar shadow shapes on the same rock.

Dissections: Great work on these. You've done a good job wrapping the textures around the cylinders and push the silhouette nicely. The baguette texture especially looks really impressive. There's a general emphasis on cast shadows throughout the exercise. Great work.

Form Intersections: Really well done! The intersections of the cubes on the first page are very good. The intersection of the top right box with the one below it feels half-assed, but the rest is good. You have some obvious mistakes on the second page but you've corrected them in the following pages. I see that your line weight is somewhat hesitant, which is understandable. Try to build up some practice with ghosting curved lines and your line confidence will improve drastically.

Organic intersections: You have some inconsistencies here. In the first page you've had obvious problems with drawing forms that lie on top of another. I do see that it got much better in the second page, but the right side of the pile on the second page feels much less stable. This is okay as this is a very hard objective to reach, but it gets easier with practice. The cast shadows seem good for the most part, except in those forms in the first page that i mentioned earlier. Keep practicing this exercise and the others. You'll get better at stacking the forms in believable piles

All in all great submission! Feel free to mobve on to lesson 3.

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1:24 AM, Thursday July 29th 2021

Hey,

Thank you for taking the time to critique my work! I appreciate it.

I'll keep the feedback in mind.

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