Hello,
Good job completing Lesson 2!
Regarding your arrows. You have a good understanding of how to draw the lines to make them look like they are naturally coming from the distance. There are some arrows where the shading is drawn on the outer side of the curve as a minor critique so be mindful of that.
Your organic sausage forms are done well and you have a good understanding of how the contours would widen/narrow with perspective.
Texture analysis is a difficult one to finishso good job on completing it. In your texture analysis assignment you did, however, forget to leave a little white spot near the right side to have a gradient of textures to transition to. There is a 25 Texture Challenge somewhere in the future lessons so you'll be getting plenty of practice then. I just wanted you to be mindful of it.
The Dissections was a particularly difficult assignment to complete. This goes into vague art drawing terms but when drawing, it is good to try to avoid "pattern drawing" which is when we draw what we think an object looks. Our brains are lazy and love to simplify objects in memory to use less neurons. With some textures liek bird feathers and brick it seems like you are drawing what you remember brick walls or feathers look like and simplifying it. Remember to draw the shadows of the texture casting on to the surface around it to capture good textures. You do a great job with capturing those cast shadows on your kiwi, pancake rocks, and soil + pebbles textures.
Another think to keep in mind is some of your textures dont seem to wrap around the 3D organic forms. For example, it looks like the brick wall texture is on a flat surface when we want to make sure it looks curved. Remember the ellipses and contour lines from the previous assignment to apply to those forms!
Your form intersections assignment is done really well and it seems like you have a good understanding and grasp of how forms intersect in 3d space. Props to you! I, personally had a lot of trouble wrapping my head around it.
You do a great job with the Organic Intersections assignment as well. My only minor critique is extending some of the cast shadows of forms to further cement the idea that it is laying on top of something.
Good job with your work! I think you are ready for the next lesson!
Next Steps:
Begin Lesson 3!
Thanks so much for the critique and feedback!
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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