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11:56 AM, Monday August 23rd 2021
Hey! Could you please upload it in better resolution? It's quite hard to understand well what's going on on your exercises. Once you have it, I'll try to correct them.
2:20 PM, Wednesday August 25th 2021
Hello DCP, thank for looking at my work. I apologize for the low quality thats the best camera i have available, i borrowed my boss's scanner at work hopefully this is clearer. Please look over my work again if you have the time, thanks again in advance.
2:22 PM, Wednesday August 25th 2021
3:30 PM, Wednesday August 25th 2021
Now it's more understandable! Ok, now I'm gonna review your work:
Arrows
Your lines seem mostly confident in your arrows exercises. However, you could have applied more work on your line weight to give more feeling of depth in your arrows, for example, as some lines has wobbly lines. Try to practice this part. Also, to give your arrows even more depth, you could try to add line weight in the parts that are closer to the viewer, so you can feel that the arrow goes away where there is less line weight.
Organic forms with contour lines
Ok, so there are some issues with your organic forms.
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First, the ones with ellipses are contour ellipses are really messy. First, the execution of the ellipses seems to be made in a rush, some don't follow the minor axis. Also, they don't change their width! This makes your organic forms to look flat. So, playing with their width is necessary to give the feeling of depth in your organic form (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6822fd02.jpg)
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For the organic forms with contour lines, the case is the same, your lines need more dramatic turns to give a feeling of depth (https://imgur.com/a/8EYUNt4). Work on clean, direct lines, don't repeat them, even if you failed to get that line. Furthermore, you can play with the side of the organic form that is seen by the viewer (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/368871002584907776/867744968432549928/QTEqgJa_1.png)
Texture analysis and dissections
The main problem I see with your dissections is that you applied too many shadows, for example in the leaf texture or in the dragon scales. Remember, we want to be implicit in our drawings, and we need to be conscious about which shadows we want to mark in our drawing.
Form intersections
Can't say much of form intersections, seems ok
Organic intersections
Check the images to see the notes (https://imgur.com/a/Yjs6YRe)
And that's much of it!
Next Steps:
The lesson is almost finished, but I want you to do this exercises:
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A page of organic forms with contour ellipses, being aware of the issues pointed
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A page of organic forms with contour lines
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One organic dissection, keeping in mind the use of the implicit shadows
Once you finish them, I'll check them and mark the lesson as completed
3:31 PM, Wednesday August 25th 2021
With one organic dissection I mean to do just one organic form applying the dissection exercise
3:59 AM, Thursday August 26th 2021
Lesson 2 Revissions
I've been trying to redo the contour lines and elipses exercise over and over but i cant seem to picture them well in my mind to draw them, I looked at the diagrams you linked, I feel as though they helped but Im wondering if you have any tips for that.
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