Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
2:07 AM, Friday April 9th 2021
My current organic forms look way better than the ones there.
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12:41 AM, Friday April 16th 2021
Hey nice job getting through lesson two!
Here are a few suggestions:
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Take the time to put your photos in the right order and right orientation, since your asking other people to review them when you upload them.
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On the sausages (both contour and ellipse) you are often neglecting to vary the degree (the minor axis size) as it goes across the shape, making them look less 3d. You may want to go back to that exercise and look more at the examples / common errors part to get a better sense and practice that as a warm up. Also, you don't need quite that many ellipses going across the shape--so many gets visually distracting and thus doesn't show the form well.
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Arrows: Work on getting smooth confident lines for them as a warm up. They are pretty shaky.
Hope those can be of some use to you. Good luck with your further studies!
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Move on to the next thing!
12:14 AM, Thursday April 22nd 2021
Alright, I'll keep that stuff in mind and I move forward and focus on the issues.
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