Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
6:59 AM, Sunday January 24th 2021
This entire lesson was done using my shoulder/elbow. I guess texture analysis should have been done with wrist. But anyways, thank you for checking. :)
Hello there, congrats on making it through! I'll be checking your submission.
Arrows
Your arrows look pretty decent. You had some shading mistakes in the first page but your second page looks better overall.
Organic Forms With Contour Lines
Your sausages look pretty good as well. You could've played a bit more with the degrees of the ellipses to make your sausages a bit more dynamic though.
Texture Analysis
I can see that you were focused on cast shadows rather than shapes which is great. You manged to refrain from scribbling random lines as well, good job! Your transition could be smoother in the last row though.
Dissections
I feel like you used random lines for some of the textures (flames, apple etc.) here. But other than that, it looks okay.
Form Intersections
The main goal here is to create a picture where all forms resemble that they share the same scene. You've managed to do that by creating forms that have consistent foreshortening. Your intersections look pretty decent as well, good job!
Organic Intersections
Both of your pages look pretty solid. You managed to avoid complex shapes and none of your sausages are floating. Your shadows curve around the forms nicely as well.
Overall, you did a pretty good job! I'm critiquing this lesson for the first time so sorry if I made some mistakes. If you have questions though, feel free to ask me here or tag me on the discord server by the same name. Good luck with lesson 3! :)
Also a quick note, try to use imgur in the future if possible. Imgur is usually more user friendy than google drive.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 3
Definitely agreed on points mentioned. Thank you for critiquing.
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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