Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

10:59 PM, Saturday June 12th 2021

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After a few months "break", I finally finished it. I've been drawing for fun while I was not doing the lesson, so there's that at least, but college was getting hard so I decided to finish the lesson 2 later(it didn't help that I got into the texture exercise at the same time I got some hard exams to study for).

The texture exercise was the hardest, and the one I had the most difficult. Probably gonna do the texture challenge sometime later, maybe after Lesson 3 or while I do it.

Anyway, I'd appreciate any kind of feedback. Either way, I'm probably gonna start the lesson 3 next week, and I'll be doing some of the exercises from lesson 2 as warmup(specially this last one). See y'all and thanks for reading.

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12:51 PM, Tuesday June 15th 2021

-Arrows are fine, try to be careful when doing the hatching or else it will be messy and hard to read.

-Organic contours ellipses are fine, I'd say tro to had some more variation in the degree of your ellipses. On the curve one your curves are often mis-aligned and you tend to overshoot a little, be sure to take your time to ghost, I know curves and ellipses are difficult so don't beat yourself up if you don't get it right until later.

-Texture analysis, you did what was asked, I'm sure if you keep going at it and analyse those textures in depth you'll get better at it.

-For the dissection exercice you want to apply the same texture techniques, which are implying the forme through cast shadow and silhouette, you don't want to draw contour lines and you don't want to work with symbols, try to remember that when doing those textures. I can see you tried to make the texture shift in perspective around the cylinder which is good

-Geometric form intersection is pretty good, like I said to other DaBbers out there, don't hesitate to jam them together, not just intersecting the corners but a wider part of the form.

-Organical form intersection is ok too, it's a bit hard to read which happens often with those exercises. I can see you avoided doing complex elongated shape which is nice. there is a few form that appears a bit flat, especially in the first one.

I think overall you did what was asked and I think you can move on to Lesson 3, but don't hesitate to rework some of those exercise I mentioned as warm-ups, specifically the contour lines curve and the organical form intersection. Force textures I think you can start working on the texture challenge a little bit here and their when you got time for it, this way you'll improve at understanding how texture works, but for now it's not mendatory.

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As said in the review. You can move on to lesson 3 but be sure to work on the contour lines curve and organical form intersection as warm-ups.

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3:47 PM, Tuesday June 15th 2021

Thanks for the feedback! I'll make sure to do those warm-ups, and I'll look at the texture challenge but will try to do it more slowly to try to grasp it better. Thanks again!

1:35 PM, Friday June 18th 2021

You're welcome ! Have a nice one and good luck

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