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1:10 AM, Friday July 3rd 2020

Thank you for the critique. I have a few questions I would like to ask.

What exactly do you mean when you say that my shadow shapes are "rough" for textures? Does that mean they tend to have pointed edges, or something else? I would like some clarification if possible.

Also, I think I understood that I was meant to strive for equilateral forms when I was doing the forms intersection exercise. Though, I did draw a few boxes with either the length, width, or height slightly stretched in one direction. Was I meant to not do this and instead draw perfect boxes? Same thing with cylinders - should I make their lengths equal to their diameters?

I did repeat some lines in this exercise, but I did it to add line weight to the silhouette (and some to the interior lines facing the viewer). I'm not sure if I was supposed to do that. Do you think so? And I used the same pen for this exercise, except when I drew the intersecting lines in red to make it more visible. Should I have not done that?

With the organic intersections, can you give me some specific examples of where I went wrong with this? I just want to make sure that I have understood what you said.

1:43 PM, Friday July 3rd 2020

1.With the rough stuff I mean the pointy bits I marked here with arrows, it's okay if you copied exactly the reference and got them, problem is when you add them when observing, if they were on the reference then they were correct.

I added as well on the image I linked a thingy to show how to approach shadows, instead of going directly with lines even if a shadow is very thin, it's better to approach them by first outlining the shadow shape and then filling it in. This forces you to think in shapes instead of lines so it can help a lot.

2.An equilateral form is a form that has the same length on each side, so a long box wouldn't be equilateral.

3.Adding lineweight to the silhouette is good, but you shouldn't add lineweight to the inner lines of a box, check this.

4.Yeah, I was refering to the intersecting lines in red, use them same pen for those as well.

5.Here are some examples and a few more things, sorry about the line quality; I only have a mouse right now and I'm very bad with it lol.

5:04 AM, Saturday July 4th 2020

Alright then. Here is my revised version:

https://imgur.com/a/UMsApub

So with number 1, I'm a bit confused on why you are saying that adding those pointy bits are wrong when observing, even if they are on the reference. I thought we were supposed to do that.

As for my revised version, I also have some more questions if you wouldn't mind answering. Are we allowed to use a different pen (both black) when adding line weight and cast shadow? Also, when adding line weight for overlapping forms, should we draw from the shoulder and smoothly? Or does that not matter so much for this exercise?

Lastly, is it okay to even add line weight and cast shadow after we draw each form, or should that be after we've drawn all forms first?

I appreciate your time.

10:02 AM, Saturday July 4th 2020

What I said is that if they were on the reference then they'd be okay, not the opposite, sorry if I explained it weirdly.

About the first question, no, you can't use different pens. The only exception is using a brush pen or a marker to fill big shadow shapes more quickly, but other stuff like that, such as lineweight needs to be done all with the same pen.

About adding lineweight, yeah, it needs to be added with ghosting and prioritizing confidence over accuracy, just like in all the other exercises.

And the last one, it's better if you do it after you draw all the forms, because you might be drawing cast shadows in a place that could after be covered by other sausage, covering the cast shadow. And similarly with lineweight, you might be adding lineweight to some part that could end up not being visible to the viewer depending on how you continue de exercise.

And about the exercise itself, nice improvement! Just one thing to keep in mind, try to keep the sausages roughly the same size, don't do some big and others really small.

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Keep it up and good luck with lesson 3!

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