Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

5:58 PM, Wednesday May 26th 2021

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Hello there. I would love to get some feedback on my attempt at Lesson 2. I appreciate you taking the time to look at my work

Thanks in advance.

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7:14 PM, Saturday May 29th 2021
edited at 7:17 PM, May 29th 2021

Hello there, congratulations on finishing lesson 2! I'm here to give you some feedback today.

Arrows Good effort here. Your two pages are quite different, from what I can see. Your first page has a good sense of depth, with the arrows getting larger as they get closer to the viewer, but some of your lines look a little hesitant, and I can see places where you've joined multiple strokes together instead of using one long flowing line to draw your arrows. Your second page has more flowing lines, which is great! But the arrows themselves are lacking depth. See if you can combine the strengths from each of your pages when you practice this exercise in the future.

Organic Forms You've done a pretty good job of keeping your forms simple, nice work. A few of them are slightly wider at one end than the other, so work on getting them a bit more even in the future. You've drawn through your contour ellipses, and they're mostly pretty well aligned to your central flow line too, well done. Well done for remembering to "hook" your contour lines around the form too. I think you could work on varying the degree of your contour lines and contour ellipses a bit more, some of your forms look a bit like this here: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6822fd02.jpg

Texture analysis This really good work! It looks like you've gone to considerable effort to focus on cast shadow shapes instead of lines wherever possible. My only real complaint is the transition between the black bar and your texture gradient on the cracked paint row is a bit sudden. This image might be of value if you choose to tackle the texture challenge: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/7d1f3467.jpg

Dissections Good work, you've done really well at wrapping your textures around the form, and I can see you breaking the silhouette in some places too. There are a couple of textures where you fall back into drawing explicitly, and outlining forms, such as your scales and hexagonal tiles, but others are really rather well done. I think your patterned metal plate and bark were quite effective.

Form Intersections Solid work! You've drawn your forms with a similar ammount of foreshortening, thus giving the impression that they all exist within the same scene. Your intersections are good too. The only real problem I can see is the missed opportunities to draw intersections on the sphere in your third page. It is overlapping a cylinder and a box but it looks like you missed the intersections. There are a few repeating lines too, but I'll chalk that up to a "whoops" moment when adding lineweight ;-) Other than that, great job.

Organic Intersections Nice work keeping your forms simple and drawing through them. Your cast shadows are heading in the right direction too, you have the majority of them wrapping round your forms, good work. I do want to note that some of your forms look unstable to me, most notably the two forms on the top right of your first page. Where there are floating or non supported sausages, that look like they're about to fall. All of them should be supported. A good thing to do is to think of them as if they're water baloons, and try to think about how they would fall on top of the other forms, drawing their final positions.

So. Overall that should give you plenty to think about. You've done good work and I'm going to mark this lesson as complete but don't forget to add these exercises to your warmups and keep practicing them.

(Edited for typos SMH)

Next Steps:

Feel free to move on to lesson 3.

Good luck on your drawing adventures.

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edited at 7:17 PM, May 29th 2021
4:09 AM, Sunday May 30th 2021

Thanks for your feedback on my work. I had definitely overlooked some of the things you said here like varying the degrees of my contour ellipses and drawing outlines in the dissections. I'll keep these mistake patterns in while moving forward.

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