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7:44 PM, Sunday February 18th 2024

Hi there Eger! Great job on finishing this lesson. Here's some feedback:

Arrows:

Generally your lines are very confident and clean - great job! Your hatching also looks great, and I can really see you put care into each line as an individual element, and didn't rush them!

Organic Forms:

Confident again, nice! The axis are mostly aligned and I also see that your ellipses get thinner in the middle as the perspective changes. So that's all great. Sometimes when you draw the outline of your forms, though, you overshoot/undershoot a little and the lines don't connect, but this is not as important as confidence is, so it's only a small thing! One thing I would say, though, is to work a bit on your hooks on the second page. They are a little bit too shallow and too "sharp." Look at this about what might help.

Texture analysis:

For your texture analysis, I'm noticing a bit of wobble in your lines. Try to not give the textures any "random" details, but make every mark intentional. Also make sure to not draw the shapes as icons, but instead indicate the 3D effect in a transition from dense to sparse. The left should be fully black, the right fully white, and the texture should make this transition very smooth. Right now I'm seeing a black bar on the left that isn't really blended in, and I also don't get the impression that the fade to white makes a lot of sense - it's too sudden. I think that the black to medium on the paper texture is pretty good though, and so is the medium to light part on the cracked mud.

Dissection:

Great job on many of these! The lizard skin and the coconut skin have very clear transition from dense to sparse and they look tidy and like you diddn't draw every individual detail but instead suggested the texture - great job! You also break the silhouette on many of these forms, which is good. The fish scales (I think it's fish scales - middle shape on the bottom of the last page) have the issue where you do draw every single scale, though, which you're not supposed to do. Instead do it like with the lizard skin. Try to put that gradient from dense to sparse in everywhere.

Also, make sure to not draw color variation, but only 3D texture. Reflective material like chrome or the colored material like the watermelon weren't really part of this exercise. But don't worry about that for now. The other textures like grass, lizard skin, coconut skin were very good.

Intersections:

I think your intersections generally look pretty good, although I think you could have pushed the overlap a little further. For two curved edges intersecting, take a look at this

Organic Intersections:

This one is hard but you did a great job not losing track and making it clear how the forms lie. There's just one thing, which is that they don't all feel like they have the right weight to them - or that it's not realistic for them to be in this position. I'd expect them to roll off or fall down. Take a look at this to see what I'm talking about. Also make sure that when you add lineweight this is tidy, and ghost your lineweight lines.

Conclusion:

Great job! I will mark this lesson as complete so you can move on to lesson 3. Just keep in mind going forward to suggest the 3D effects of the texture when drawing textures, and completely ignore color and light. Keep in mind line confidence and ghosting as always, and don't overcorrect shapes or add lineweight without ghosting. But all in all, great job!

Next Steps:

Next up: Lesson 3!

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4:19 AM, Wednesday February 21st 2024
edited at 4:20 AM, Feb 21st 2024

Hey Mosselmemory!

Sorry for the late response! I really appreciate the time you took to give some critiques about the exercises. I think looking back at my exercises, I totally agree about your comments about the textures as its becoming a habit (hopefully eliminated as I progress forward). I'm excited to move on to plants though and thanks so much!

-Eger

edited at 4:20 AM, Feb 21st 2024
10:46 PM, Wednesday February 21st 2024

This is great to hear!! Good luck!

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