Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
1:44 PM, Saturday November 9th 2024
Only two form intersections as I didn't understand it . Tried asking for help a few times but wasn't able to recieve any.
I believe I can offer some help with the form intersections exercise. When you first draw your forms on the page, there is really nothing indicating where they are in space next to each other. When you draw in the intersections, you are clarifying where the shapes are with respect to each other. If you are struggling with how the shapes intersect, remember that the intersection of two three dimensional shapes forms a two dimensional shape as Uncomfortable demonstrates here in the instructions for the homework:
The intersection of two planes is a line, and a box is just a set of six planes
The intersection of a plane and a sphere forms an ellipse
The intersection of a plane and a cone forms a conic section
The intersection of a plane and a cylinder forms an ellipse (or a rectangle, if the plane is parallel to the axis of the cylinder)
The intersection of two curved forms is more complicated, but try to remember that it will be circular in nature, regardless of if the shape is a cylinder, cone, or sphere.
A few other critiques:
I see you are drawing in a sketchbook. While this is fine, make sure that it is a sketchbook meant for pen and not pencil, as indicated in lesson 0. Also, you appear to be doing the lessons on back-to-back pages, and the ink is bleeding through, making your lessons appear less clean. In the future, please complete your lessons on their own sheets of paper to avoid the bleeding.
I see you are using hatching as shading to help define your forms. Uncomfortable recommends using only cast shadows, as indicated here in lesson 2.
In your organic intersections, the shadows are attached to the shapes casting them and it is causing your shapes to all kind of melt together. Try to keep the cast shadows separate from the forms that are casting them.
And finally, if you have questions or are having trouble getting your work critiqued, do not be afraid to reach out for help on the discord!
Next Steps:
Please complete your form intersections exercise and resubmit.
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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