Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
6:27 PM, Sunday June 6th 2021
Here it comes. The intersections are still beating my brain.
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9:19 PM, Monday June 7th 2021
For the most part, you have a solid showing here. You seem to have understood the purpose of each exercise. Here are the things that I took notice of.
On most of your arrows, the distance between edges doesn't get smaller as they get further away; there are a few arrows on the second page that do display this property. This behavior is important to keep in mind when portraying perspective.
On your organic forms, the degrees of the ellipses don't change much. The ellipse degrees will change as you see them from different angles. This is illustrated here: https://imgur.com/rXLBxSg
Aside from that, your organic forms are pretty good.
Your texture study is quite good. The transitions occur smoothly, and all your marks appear to be purposeful and controlled. The transition to all-white on the dried mud texture is admittedly a little abrupt, but aside from that, I have no criticisms to give here.
The organic form dissections are also quite good. The textures all wrap around the forms and influence silhouette. I don't have much to say for this one; you did well.
The form intersections pages are quite good. For the most part, the shapes appear to occupy the same space, though a couple of shapes do appear a little off. Nonetheless, the order is there, with consistent foreshortening.
The actual intersections between forms are done rather well. I do notice that a number of them feel like they largely follow one of the shapes instead of fully adhering to both at the same time, but this may just be me. In any case, all the intersections look sensible enough.
The organic intersection pages are solid, though there is some room for improvement. A number of the cast shadows don't fully look like they're being cast onto the forms below and instead just follow the shape of the forms casting them. The shadow cast by the topmost form on page 2 in particular feels like it doesn't really fall onto the forms below and instead just floats there. I also noticed that you used line weight improperly on the first page, outlining entire forms as opposed to just outlining overlapping portions for clarity. You avoid making this same mistake in the second page, though, which is good.
Next Steps:
I say that you should move on to lesson 3. You've done fairly well with this lesson overall, and I think that you are ready to tackle the next step. Of course, if anyone has any other suggestions, you should consider what they have to say.
I also recommend incorporating the organic forms and arrows in drawing warm-ups, so that you can further practice perspective and solid forms.
Good work; keep it up.
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